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Radical publisher Verso has revealed its sales grew by more than 33% in the first six months of 2009, its "best half-year figures for four years". Verso said its total UK sales for the first 6 months were £297,000, with its european and export sales also up by 10%. According to Nielsen BookScan data, the publisher has grown its retail sales through the Total Consumer Market by 9.3% to £74,000 in the half year to 13th June.
The publisher said key performers included BBC Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason's Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed, the paperback edition of John Berger's Booker-longlisted From A to X, and the latest set of classic philosophy titles in Verso's Radical Thinkers series.
Verso's UK sales and marketing director, Rowan Wilson, said: "As well as our wholesaler and online sales increasing dramatically, we are very pleased how positively high street stores have responded to the list - they recognise that it takes more than Dan Brown and a few cookbooks to make an enticing bookshop!
"The response from readers has been phenomenal. It shows that in a period of economic crisis, political corruption and disastrous foreign policy, people are keen on alternative explanations as to how things went so badly wrong, and what can be done."