Ever since the late 1990s, member publishers’ sales have shown a steady increase year after year. For 2007, however, the increase is slightly smaller than it was for 2006.

The total number of new books sold reached a new all-time high of 28 million copies in 2007. Adding to that backlist sales, i.e. sales of previously published books, the total number of copies sold reached 45.6 million.

The average number of copies sold per title also reached a record high, 6,000.

For the statistics in full please see the pdf-file below.