AuthorWings Research: Book sales statistics 2026 (November 2026)
Page: https://authorwings.com/book-sales-statistics/
Free to use with credit: "AuthorWings Research Team, analysis of BookScan, Bowker and Google search data."

bookscan-first-year-sales-2022.csv  New print titles from the 10 largest US publishers by copies sold in 52 weeks to Aug 24, 2022. Source: BookScan analyst Kristen McLean, as reported by Jane Friedman. share_pct = titles / 45,571.
us-books-published-2022-2025.csv     US titles registered with ISBNs by year. Source: Bowker via Publishers Weekly, Mar 2026. ISBN counts, not unique books.
myth-tracker.csv                     Eight popular book sales claims, where each started, what it measured, and what the data says.
google-audit-summary-2026.csv        Totals from our audit of Google's top 10 results and AI Overview sources for 10 US book sales searches. Site names are not published.
ai-assistant-answers-2026.csv        How five AI assistants answered the same five questions on Nov 1, 2026. Asked once, in one message per assistant. Copilot's answer to question 5 arrived cut off, so that question was asked again on its own the same day. Answers change over time.
