Links of the week August 10 2020 (33)

A few factors are likely contributing to the resilience of sales:

• the prevalence of online purchasing in the US market (driven by Amazon, of course)
• the strength of Ingram's print-on-demand operations in the US-and the overall robustness of the US supply chain thus far
• the current events/bestseller effect, with race relations and politics driving high sales of titles such as White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, John Bolton's The Room Where It Happened, and Mary Trump's Too Much and Never Enough. (Outperforming titles can bring a book category into a growth position or soften-even turn around-a decline for the market.)
• the high adoption rate of ebooks and audiobooks in the US market prior to the pandemic
• the migration of print sales to big-box retailers, as written about by the New York Times.

Let's dig deeper into what's happening