by Felix Richter, Statista.com
— this post authored by Niall McCarthy
The infographic below shows the sales of bookstores in the US during the first half of the year from 2009 to 2016.
After a number of years in decline, sales finally started to pick up again in 2015 when there was a 1.9 percent increase on the previous year. Far from a flash in the pan, sales increased again in H1 2016 by an impressive 6.1 percent.
This chart shows bookstore sales in the first half of the year in the U.S. from 2009 to 2016
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