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The US book business faces challenges including AI slop, but print sales and e-book and audiobook revenue were stable in 2025, and 422 stores joined the ABA (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/books/b

Dragons, Sex and the Bible Drove Book Sales in 2025
Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here’s how book sales looked in 2025.

@… Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This" just won the National Book Award for nonfiction. You might appreciate his acceptance speech. (It starts a few minutes from here, which is the intro of the finalists.)

Trump-related nonfiction book sales have sharply declined, with weak sales over the past year compared to his first term, when 20 titles became NYT bestsellers (Paul Farhi/The Atlantic)
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Trump Books Aren’t Selling Anymore
A decade into the Trump era, readers who were once hungry to learn about the man seem to have had their fill.