U.S. book store sales 2023

In 2023, U.S. book store sales reached 8.3 billion U.S. dollars according to preliminary estimates, down from 8.35 billion in the previous year. The 2023 figure will be subject to later adjustments, but demonstrated an drop from the figures for both 2021 and 2022, and sales are yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.

Book store sales in the United States from 1992 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars)

Year	Sales in billion U.S. dollars
2023	8.3
2022	8.35
2021	8.47
2020	6.5
2019	8.93
2018	10.6
2017	10.11
2016	11.14
2015	11.01
2014	11.33
2013	11.49
2012	12.27
2011	13.72
2010	15.24
2009	15.8
2008	16.8
2007	17.17
2006	16.98
2005	16.99
2004	16.88
2003	16.22
2002	15.44
2001	15.1
2000	14.88
1999	14.17
1998	13.28
1997	12.74
1996	11.91
1995	11.2
1994	10.11
1993	9.11
1992	8.33

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Release date

April 2024

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Region

United States

Survey time period

1992 to 2023

Special properties

bookstore sales are from stores at which books account for at least 50 percent of revenue

Supplementary notes

Figures have been rounded.
All numbers are estimates and based on data from the Annual Retail Trade Survey.
Estimates have not been adjusted for price changes. Additional information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, sample design, and definitions can be found here.
Estimated measures of sample variability can be found here.

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