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Monthly retail sales of book stores in the United States from January 2015 to February 2018 (in million U.S. dollars)
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Monthly retail sales of U.S. book stores 2015-2018

This statistic provides retail sales data for book stores in the United States from January 2015 to February 2018. In the last measured month, February 2018, the sales of U.S. book retailers amounted to 706 million U.S. dollars worth of merchandise. Total book store sales in the United States amounted to 10.73 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, down from 15.24 billion U.S. dollars in 2010. Revenue of U.S. book stores in 2017 amounted to 12 billion U.S. dollars, a decrease of two billion U.S. dollars on the year before.

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This statistic provides retail sales data for book stores in the United States from January 2015 to February 2018. In the last measured month, February 2018, the sales of U.S. book retailers amounted to 706 million U.S. dollars worth of merchandise. Total book store sales in the United States amounted to 10.73 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, down from 15.24 billion U.S. dollars in 2010. Revenue of U.S. book stores in 2017 amounted to 12 billion U.S. dollars, a decrease of two billion U.S. dollars on the year before.

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Release date: April 2018

Region: United States
Survey time period: January 2015 to February 2018
Supplementary notes: * Preliminary estimate

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