70.8 million nonfiction children’s/ya books were sold in 2021.Nonfiction book sales account for 45.5% of total print book sales as of 2022.

This is the biggest nonfiction category, accounting for over 80% of total nonfiction sales.289.34 million nonfiction adult print books were sold in 2022.This was a 10.1% decrease over the 401.9 million reached in 2021.360.1 million nonfiction print books were sold in 2022.Nonfiction books sales in the US Nonfiction print unit sales in the US As of 2020, one in five books sold for the adult nonfiction segment were audiobooks.2020 has been the best-performing year for adult nonfiction ebooks since 2017, selling 29 million units in the U.S.As of 2022, nonfiction print books account for 45.5% of book sales in the US, trailing fiction books for the second year in a row.This is a 10.4% drop over the 401.94 million print units sold in 2021.As of 2022, over 360.11 million nonfiction print books are sold in the US.Adult nonfiction generates the most revenue and the most unit sales in the US book market.US adult nonfiction sales reached $6.40 billion, while YA and juvenile fiction generate over $.0.94 billion per year.The US nonfiction book market generates over 55.3% of global nonfiction book revenue.Total U.S nonfiction sales revenue reached $7.34 billion as of 2021, a 1.52% increase over 2020 of $7.23 billion.By 2026, the global nonfiction book market is projected to reach $16.61 billion.The global nonfiction book market is projected at $14.02 billion as of 2022, which is a 5.7% growth compared to $13.27 billion in 2021.

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