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US book sales have fallen again although the market is not experiencing as difficult sales performance as the UK. Publishers Weekly quotes figures from the US Census Bureau which reports that sales fell 0.8% to $1.10bn in June.
Despite a slight uplift in sales during the first quarter, the market slumped in Q2. Overall, sales were down 0.5% to $7.42bn compared to the first half of 2009.
When the figures are placed alongside those of 2008, before the recession dug in in earnest, sales are down 3.6%.
According to figures from Nielsen BookScan, UK book sales for the first 26 weeks of the year were down 5.5% to £699.6m; a four-year low.