Where on the Internet can I find free information for a recent year
(2000, 2001 or 2002)on adult trade book sales (dollars and book
numbers) by category for the U.S. and any major channels such as
Barnes and Noble or Amazon?  Categories I am especially interested in
are self-help, language, and business books.  (This link is a good
reference, although not specific enough:
http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA286525&publication=publishersweekly)
Thank you!

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Request for Question Clarification by knowledge_seeker-ga on 04 May 2003 12:53 PDT

Is this the kind of thing you are looking for? 

ESTIMATED ANNUAL SALES OF ADULT 
TRADE BOOKS BY CATEGORY IN UNITS 
& PERCENT OF MARKET SHARE (2000)   
 
General Nonfiction    105 million  (7.8%) 
Art/Literature/Poetry    45 million   (3.3%)   

..etc ..

-K~

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Clarification of Question by lingleader-ga on 05 May 2003 09:10 PDT

Dear -K,

Yes!  That is what I am looking for.  If dollars are availables as
well as units, even better. (and a link to wherever you found it).

Thank you!

Jeremy

Hi Jeremy!

Sorry to be so slow in getting back to you. I was out of town for two
days.

This is one of those cases where you were SO close to the answer that
you're going to kick yourself when you see where I send you – back to
Publisher's Weekly.

But, don't kick yourself too hard. The book sales statistics on that
website are so incredibly hard to find, that I found them once only
through sheer tenacity (I knew they had to be there somewhere!) when
answering another book question, and since then have been unable to
find them again except by going back to that question and clicking my
own link.

It turns out you can only get to them on the Publisher's Weekly site
by going through the FAQs. There is no heading any place on the site
that says "Book sales statistics."

So .. here is the link to exactly the data you are looking for:

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – FAQ'S – TRADE BOOKS SALES STATISTICS
http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=siteInfo&doc_id=21658&crumb=FAQs#trade


For further information on book sales stats along with many other
links, here are some previous questions I answered on the topic ---


Re: Book (Sales of books to women)
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=163529

Re: statistics/data about amount and kinds of nonfiction read by
adults
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=58011

Re: Ghostwriting (percentage of books written by ghostwriters)
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=57007



And some related questions answered by other researchers -----

Library best-seller book circulation?  
[not answered, but good comments]
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=119994

Publishing Industry statistics
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=14107

US market statistics for cookbooks and cooking magazines
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=37510

Size of Cookbook market in US
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=77242

Book Sales
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=13883

College textbook market
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=2511

Self Help (includes market data on self help books)
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=194814

Top 10 self- help books
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=175707



Am glad I was able to help you with this. Thanks for your question. 

-K~

Excellent answer, and quite a pleasant researcher as well.  Thank you!