| CATEGORY | % CHANGE June | % CHANGE YTD |
| (Measured in $ sales against same time periods, 2008)* Number of reporting companies. After a string of down months, sales stirred a bit in the adult hardcover segment in June with the 17 publishers who report figures to the AAP showing a 12.6% gain for the month. Sales were still off 17.8% in the segment for the first half of 2009. Only four of the 13 segments tracked by AAP had a sales increase in the six-month period, with e-books posting the largest gain. The 13 e-book publishers who report sales had total revenue of $61.2 million, a jump of 149.3% over the first six months of 2008. Sales in the higher education segment posted big gains in June and the six months, while the children's hardcover category, up 30.7% for the year to date slowed down in June with sales off 2.8%. | ||
| Adult Hard (17)* | 12.6% | -17.8% |
| Adult Paper (18) | 15.7 | -14.3 |
| Mass Market (9) | 30.9 | -3.6 |
| Juvenile Hard (14) | -2.8 | 30.7 |
| Juvenile Paper (14) | 1.1 | 1.7 |
| Audio (14) | -17.3 | -34.5 |
| Electronic (13) | 136.2 | 149.3 |
| Religious (18) | -22.0 | -7.2 |
| Higher Ed. (10) | 60.6 | 46.6 |
| Univ. Pr. Hard (37) | -20.1 | -7.3 |
| Univ. Pr. Paper (37) | -7.4 | -6.3 |
| Professional (9) | -11.7 | -7.8 |
| Elhi (8) | -30.5 | -24.0 |
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