The statistic presents religious books sales revenue generated in the United States from in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, religious books generated 593.7 million U.S. dollars in sales revenue. Book store sales on the whole have been in decline in recent years in the United States. The sales revenue peaked at over 17 billion U.S. dollars in 2007, but has since shrunk to 10.73 billion U.S. dollars in 2017. In this year, revenue of bookstores in the United States amounted to 12 billion U.S. dollars, down from 17.23 billion U.S. dollars in 2011.
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The statistic presents religious books sales revenue generated in the United States from in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, religious books generated 593.7 million U.S. dollars in sales revenue. Book store sales on the whole have been in decline in recent years in the United States. The sales revenue peaked at over 17 billion U.S. dollars in 2007, but has since shrunk to 10.73 billion U.S. dollars in 2017. In this year, revenue of bookstores in the United States amounted to 12 billion U.S. dollars, down from 17.23 billion U.S. dollars in 2011.
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The statistic presents religious books sales revenue generated in the United States from in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, religious books generated 593.7 million U.S. dollars in sales revenue. Book store sales on the whole have been in decline in recent years in the United States. The sales revenue peaked at over 17 billion U.S. dollars in 2007, but has since shrunk to 10.73 billion U.S. dollars in 2017. In this year, revenue of bookstores in the United States amounted to 12 billion U.S. dollars, down from 17.23 billion U.S. dollars in 2011.
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