Statistics
Source-based context and useful figures about books & reading, with dates and limitations explained.
AbeBooks statistics show a long-running global marketplace with millions of listings, international sellers, detailed search controls, and thousands of curated collections.
A data-led overview of U.S. book censorship incidents, school bans, library challenges, affected audiences, and recurring themes.
Recent surveys show how many U.S. adults join book clubs, how groups meet, and how members manage books, schedules, and discussion.
Statistics from the UK and Canada show how readers discover books through search, browsing, recommendations, authors, social platforms, shops, libraries, and lists.
Book donation programs delivered books through libraries, schools, early-years schemes, community boxes, and crisis-response partnerships across multiple countries.
A fiscal-year view of mass deacidification work, measured in physical volumes, book equivalents, and program obligations.
Book recycling statistics show how book waste moved through recycling, energy recovery, and landfills, alongside broader paper-flow trends.
France's used-book market reached 20% of printed-book units bought in 2022, with especially strong growth in literature, youth books, comics, and practical titles.
Book restoration statistics show how libraries staffed conservation work, funded treatment, handled water damage, and shifted preservation activity between 2008 and FY2012.
A fact-based look at bookstore establishments, retail sales, bookstore employment, campus retail networks, and independent bookseller trends.
A comparison of fiction-reading statistics by age, including adult trends, children's print and digital reading, and access differences.
Federal bookstore-industry data shows how employment is distributed across management, sales, food service, operations, technology, and other roles.
Independent bookstores have expanded their association membership and community reach while operating in a retail sector reshaped by long-term sales and establishment changes.
Compare U.S. readership by age using survey estimates for nonfiction topics, overall book reading, literary reading, and print, digital, and audio formats.
Explore England's estimated public-library loans and survey evidence on who uses libraries, where engagement is highest, and how borrowing-related activity differs.
Authors Guild statistics show how published-author earnings varied in 2022 by work status, publishing route, genre, experience, and income dependence.
Auction records show how rare books, manuscripts, maps, and related cultural objects performed across major sales from 2017 through 2026.
Education level is closely associated with reading participation in U.S. surveys, from books and literary works to newspapers, magazines, digital reading, and audiobooks.
Secondhand book buying has expanded across readers, genres, online marketplaces, and resale channels, with France providing a detailed market snapshot.
A data-led look at textbook resale statistics, including used-book pricing, student purchasing behavior, rentals, digital materials, and buyback comparisons.
A data-led overview of translated book publishing, from UNESCO's global records to recent European, German, and UK and Ireland figures.
Explore used book market statistics covering buyer behavior, nonprofit sales, dealer profiles, charity stores, online marketplaces, and reuse.
A data-led look at who buys used books, how much they purchase, where they shop and which genres drive second-hand demand.
A dated statistical snapshot of used book sales, buyers, dealers, charity fundraising, and reuse in the United States and Canada.
Explore adult reading frequency statistics for U.S. readers, including format preferences, demographic differences and changes across survey years.
A data-led look at antique and rare books, from institutional holdings and dealer organizations to auction volume and headline sales.
A data-led look at the size, formats, prices, channels, genres, and professional networks shaping book collecting.
Recent book donation statistics show how nonprofits move millions of print and digital books into schools, libraries, refugee settings, and homes.
Recent statistics show how children's recreational reading varies by age, gender, access to books, reading settings and educational outcomes.
Print remains the leading book format, while ebook readership has expanded across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Northern Ireland.