BookStats 2012 from BISG

The e-book phenomenon continued in 2011 with e-books ranking, for the first time, as the year's #1 individual format for Adult Fiction; Children's/Young Adult titles showed the strongest performance among categories; brick-and-mortar stores remain the biggest sales channel; and direct-to-consumer saw strong growth according to BookStats 2012, the most comprehensive annual survey of the size and scope of the U.S. publishing industry