Monthly retail sales of U.S. book stores 2015-2018

The data shows retail sales data for book stores in the U.S. from January 2015 to June 2018. In May 2018, the sales of U.S. book retailers amounted to 746 million USD worth of merchandise, and estimates for June suggest that this figure will fall to 699 million. Total book store sales in the U.S. amounted to 10.73 billion USD in 2017, down from 15.24 billion USD in 2010. Revenue of U.S. book stores in 2017 amounted to 12 billion USD, a decrease of two billion USD on the year before.