UK publishing industry reports record-breaking year in 2022 | Books | The Guardian

In consumer books, print sales were up 2%, to £1.8bn, while digital sales were also up 2% to £423m and audio downloads saw an 8% increase to £164m. Fiction was up by 9% to £797m of sales, and children's books were up by 1%. Non-fiction saw a decrease of 2%, but still accounted for £1bn.

Rebecca Smart, chair of the Association's consumer publishers council and co-CEO of DK Books, said that while it was "disappointing to see a modest decrease in overall sales at home, it is great to see fiction and audio doing particularly well as people continue to seek entertainment and discovery through books".