Indie Book Sales: Portas, Sapkowski, Armitage Outperform

Indie bookshops see strong sales for Portas, Sapkowski, and Armitage, outperforming general market. Osman remains #1. Indie chart differs from TCM, with select titles showing significant differences.

Other vital launches this week include Mary Portas’ I Store, Consequently I Am (Canongate), which debuts in 4th with indies– 132 places higher than the retail magnate’s TCM placement, potentially many thanks to her appearance at the Booksellers Association’s seminar in September.

Sapkowski’s Strong Indie Performance

Second area, nevertheless, is a different story, as the highest possible brand-new release, Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski (Gollancz) appears in second place in the Indie Top 20, some 48 places greater than its look in BookScan’s general Total Consumer Marker (TCM) chart. NielsenIQ does not reveal sales numbers for the independent industry so it is hard to state how big a volume void there is between the leading 2 titles– however in the TCM the gulf in between Osman and Sapkowski is 55,980 duplicates. With both titles showing up in the Indie Top 20 with an ASP at less than 1% off the RRP, it can be deduced that the indie industry’s share of Sapkowski’s most recent sales is larger than its portion of Osman’s; the ASP in the TCM of The Impossible Lot of money is almost half price, while Sapkowski sees simply a 10.3% decrease from the RRP.

Armitage’s Indie Overachievement

Simon Armitage’s latest verse collection New Burial ground (Faber) is this week’s largest overachiever: it appears in a lucky for him 13th for independents however can just make it to 455th place in the TCM on 827 copies marketed.

Osman Tops Indie Chart Again

For a second consecutive week, The Difficult Ton Of Money by Richard Osman (Viking) has covered the Independent Bookshop Top 20 according to NielsenIQ BookScan– an uncommon instance of the indie chart matching the general UK primary.

The complete Independent Bookshop Top 20 can be located on The Bookseller’s bestseller web pages. The Bookseller has adjusted the Independent Bookshop chart to eliminate some titles where sales do not originate from mortar bookshops and typical blocks, such as event brochures and those included on empires’ subscription boxes.

Indie Chart vs. TCM Differences

Besides the matching of first place, the indie graph is rather various from the TCM this week with only two other titles from the UK-wide Leading 20 appearing in the Indie position. Anthony Horowitz’s Marble Hall Murders (Keystone) takes 17th setting in the Indie Top 20, 4 places less than its TCM appearance, while David Nicholls’ You Are Here(Hodder) shows up 14 locations lower in the full market contrasted to its number 6 area with the indies.