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The Biggest Footprint: Eight billion humans. One clumsy giant. by Rob and Tom Sears

October 6, 2021 By achuka Leave a Comment

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“In this creatively presented book about climate change, the Sears effectively personalise the issue for young readers … the visually engaging interplay between image and fact makes the message of this unique book extremely digestible” Irish Times

There are eight billion of us humans. All breathing, eating, fidgeting and thinking deep thoughts. It’s an unimaginably large number. Or is it?

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The mega human is the result of smooshing all the people in the world together into one spectacular giant (don’t try this at home). Even though the mega human is not the smartest of creatures, it is slowly beginning to understand the problems it has created for Planet Earth’s future . . . and how it might be able to fix them.

Making use of brain-bending stats and smoosh theory, The Biggest Footprint is a journey of self-discovery suitable for anyone and everyone identifying as human.

Rob and Tom Sears have created everything from zoo exhibitions and ice cream van designs to sitcoms, newspaper cartoons and movie scripts. The Biggest Footprint is the first book they’ve co-authored.
Read a full Q&A with them on the book’s website…: https://www.thebiggestfootprint.com/qanda

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Filed Under: BookOfTheDay, Illustrated, NonFiction Tagged With: big data, curiosity, data

YA decline of 22% explained by absence of TV/Film Tie-Ins

September 25, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

The children’s book market grew by a modest 0.7% last year.
The YA sector declined 22% – “The main reason the category has declined so much is because 2017 had a lot of TV and film adaptations helping to drive sales, like Nicola Yoon’s Everything Everything (Corgi) and Jay Asher’s 13 Reasons Why”
Non-fiction saved the day, up by an impressive 31%, thanks to titles such as Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls and, I would add, some lovely books from the likes of Wide Eyed and Wren&Rook…

The children’s market has shown overall growth of 0.7% by value, driven by children’s nonfiction sales, which were up 10.2%. In the nonfiction category, sales of books categorised as ‘general nonfiction’ increased by 31% compared to the same time last year, with Bookseller charts and data editor Kiera O’Brien attributing this growth to the success of 2017’s Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls (Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo, Particular Books). According to O’Brien, the rise in popularity of similar general nonfiction titles such as Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different (Ben Brooks & Quinton Winter, Quercus), which sold 48,738 copies, and You Are Awesome (Matthew Syed, Wren & Rook), which sold 68,752 copies, is ‘unmistakable’.In fiction, picture books experienced their fifth consecutive year of value growth, increasing by 2% on last year, while children’s fiction sales were steady, with 0.05% growth. YA sales were down in 2018, reporting a decrease of 22%. ‘The main reason the category has declined so much is because 2017 had a lot of TV and film adaptations helping to drive sales, like Nicola Yoon’s Everything Everything (Corgi) and Jay Asher’s 13 Reasons Why (Puffin),’ said O’Brien.

via UK children’s book market reports growth; YA down 22%, children’s nonfiction up 10.2% | Books+Publishing.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: data, sales, year-on-year

Children’s book market up 7% in first quarter & other interesting data

April 16, 2016 By achuka Leave a Comment

booksellerThe UK children’s book market grew more than 7% in the first quarter of 2016, according to Nielsen Books.

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Kids books are therefore on track to have a “very good year”, especially considering the market grew 5.1% in 2015 from 2014, when sales hit an “all time high”, she said.

Children’s books accounted for 24% of the TCM data (total consumer market) in 2015, compared to only 15% of the total market in 2001, and the two biggest-selling genres in the category last year were children’s fiction and novelty and activity books.

Young adult (YA) saw a decline in 2015 but that was mainly due to the fact that 2014 sales were boosted by Veronica Roth’s Divergent series, said Swope. The YA market is actually diversifying, with debut authors getting more  of a look in thanks to prizes, citing Lisa Williamson’s recent win at the 2016 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in the best older fiction category for The Art of Being Normal (David Fickling Books), she added.

Customers are also paying more than ever before for children’s books, with the average selling price of a kids title at £5.40 in 2016, boosted by titles such as Egmont’s Blockopedia and Bloomsbury’s illustrated Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

The big publishers still dominate the market. In fiction, Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s has 30% of the market, followed by HarperCollins Children’s Books (16.3%). PRH is also the biggest publisher in picture books with 22% of the market, with Macmillan coming in second (13.8%).

However, Andersen Press, Nosy Crow, Bloomsbury and Usborne all saw double digit growth and are “ones to watch”, said Swope.

via Children’s book market up 7% in first quarter | The Bookseller.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: data, publishing, sales

YA e-Book Sales Decline 44.5% in 2015 (e-Books generally down 11.5%)

December 19, 2015 By achuka Leave a Comment

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The Association of American Publishers has just released their annual report that takes a look at the overall health of the industry and how well audiobooks, e-books, hardcover and paper sales are doing. The organization has reported that e-book sales have declined 11% on the year with YA falling a staggering 44.5% from the same period in 2014.

via e-Book Sales Decline 11.0% in 2015.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: data, digital, ebooks, Kindle, sales

An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: If 80% of ‘Young Adult’ books are bought by adults, should we keep the label?

October 4, 2015 By achuka Leave a Comment

Really interesting piece (with data) by David Thorpe

If 80% of ‘Young Adult’ books are bought by adults, should we keep the label? – David Thorpe
Did you know that 80% of Young Adult (YA) books are bought by adults? Why do you think this is? And what does this mean for the future of this label, for publishers and readers? As a writer of books for young adults, who has just completed what might be described as a young adult/crossover novel, this subject interests me intensely.

Some fascinating insights into children’s book reading habits and book sales were recently revealed by market research company Nielsen Books at its second annual Children’s Book Summit at Convene, NYC, on September 15.

via An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: If 80% of 'Young Adult' books are bought by adults, should we keep the label? – David Thorpe.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: data, sales, YA, young adult

What Kids Are Reading 2015

February 27, 2015 By achuka Leave a Comment

What an interesting report this is!


Coverage in the media yesterday made much of the fact that classic fantasy (Tolkien) has fallen out of favour amongst older readers and been displaced by ‘dark dystopia’.
But far more compelling is the data that shows how, in general, this demographic is not being challenged by their reading choices.

Children in the earlier part of their time at primary school are being stretched beyond what would be expected. Children are stretched by a smaller margin each year until Years 4 and 5, where they read at a level broadly equivalent to what would be expected. From Year 6 onwards, children are significantly under-challenged by their chosen reading material.

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In her analysis of the report, The Guardian’s Alison Flood pointed out:

Apart from Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo, in 17th place, every single title in primary-school children’s most-read list was by a male author, while in secondary schools, two Hunger Games titles by Collins, in fourth and 12th place, were the only books by female writers.

The full report is available for download:
http://whatkidsarereading.co.uk/2015/download-the-full-report-2015/

The report, which is produced annually, is written by Keith Topping, Professor of Education at Dundee University, and is published by Renaissance Learning, one of whose products is Accelerated Reader.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: data, reading, report, research

New Data on the Impact of YA Franchises

December 5, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

Need proof that media tie-ins drive children’s fiction sales full-throttle? New data to be released at the Nielsen Children’s Book Summit next week will offer ample supporting evidence of this at one of numerous sessions during the daylong conference at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium in Manhattan. A co-production of global consumer information provider Nielsen and Miami-based publishing specialists Bookigee, the summit aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the children’s book landscape for publishers, marketers and content developers looking to understand consumer behavior.

The event, to be held on December 12, will feature presentations from Nielsen researchers and child development specialists, as well as live focus groups with families and teens. Presenters will share insights on how to create compelling content, how to use technology to reach consumers, and how to leverage other forms of entertainment to extend book brands and deepen children’s engagement.

PW received an early glimpse of some of the statistics that Nielsen presenters will disclose during the summit session, focusing on the power of film adaptations to catapult YA novels onto bestseller lists – and keep them there for quite some time. Here are some highlights:

● Every YA novel on a Bookscan-sourced list of the 20 top children’s bestsellers from the fourth quarter of 2011 through the third quarter of 2014 (topped by Veronica Roth’s Divergent and John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars) was backed by a media tie-in.

● Film adaptation of YA novels boost sales of the entire series they fall under: sales figures for Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, and Roth’s Divergent books all skyrocketed by triple-digit percentages after the release of the movie based on the series’ inaugural installment. In the most dramatic example, sales of the debut novel in Meyers’s series increased by 649% from 2007 to 2008, the year the Twilight film was released.

● Among moviegoers ages 18–35, YA novel adaptations tie (at 43%) with fantasy and action-thriller films as their favorite genre, trailing comedy (at 55%) and action adventure (at 47%), but beating out science fiction (at 40%) and romantic comedy (at 39%).

43% of moviegoers surveyed chose YA adaptations as their favorite genre.

● Even backlist titles can benefit from a movie spinoff, as witnessed by Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, first published in 1999, which got a monumental sales bump courtesy of its movie spinoff. Released in October 2012, the film boosted annual sales from 88,847 copies in 2011 to 425,933 in 2012, and the book has performed consistently well since then.

The YA Adaptation Fanship study was conducted by Nielsen Content, which provides customized research solutions for film, television and digital clients. It involved two focus groups of YA adaptation fans, whose insights helped build the quantitative phase of the research, a 20-minute online survey of 2,000 YA adaptation moviegoers (70% female and 30% male) between the ages of 12–35. One of the research team’s endeavors was identifying four “fanship” segments within YA adaptation fandom, ranging from casual to ardent followers of the genre, to better target the interests of each group.

Further details and various infograms available via the link:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/64951-new-data-on-the-impact-of-ya-franchises-to-be-unveiled-at-nielsen-summit.html?utm_source=Publishers Weekly&utm_campaign=476883b8f4-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-476883b8f4-304519345

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: data, media, movies, tie-in, YA

Children’s market is fastest-growing book sector – up 10% on 2013

September 12, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

The UK children’s publishing market is up by 10% this year, making it the fastest-growing book sector ahead of what is expected to be a sell-out Bookseller Children’s Conference (25th September).
Nielsen BookScan data shows that consumers spent £187.9m on children’s books in the first eight months of 2014 (1st January–31st August 2014), up 10% on the same period in 2013.

via Children’s market 10% up on 2013 | The Bookseller.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: data, market, publisheing, sector

Who reads books in America, and how?

January 25, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

Interesting breakdown of US print/ebook reading habits – by age, gender, income etc.

The Pew Internet and American Life project has released a new report on reading, called E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps. It surveys American book-reading habits, looking at both print books and electronic books, as well as audiobooks. They report that ebook readership is increasing, and also produced a “snapshot” (above) showing readership breakdown by gender, race, and age. They show strong reading affinity among visible minorities and women, and a strong correlation between high incomes and readership.

via Who reads books in America, and how? – Boing Boing.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: data, digital, ebooks, print, reading

Why This Simple Government Website Was Named the Best Design of the Year

August 7, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Jordan Hatch, the teenage ‘boy wonder’, has been getting a lot of press in recent days for the part he has been playing in developing the impressively straightforward UK govenrment website, gov.uk – The video, produced a short while ago to coincide with the site being named 2013 Best Design of the Year (the first website to ever win the six-years-old title), is definitely worth a watch…

Gizmodo

http://gizmodo.com/5994829/why-this-simple-government-website-was-named-the-best-design-of-the-year

Filed Under: Blog, Web/Design Tagged With: data, design, government, information, we

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