Austrians bought more books last year. The total turnover increased by 4.7 percent, the intramural bookstore by five percent. The largest plus recorded fiction (9.7 percent).
In the previous year, the Austrian author and cabaret artist Thomas Stipsits ended up with the bestsellers, this time with his “All Saints” Fiasco “. This is followed by Sebastian Fitzek with “The Calendar Girl” and Joachim Meyerhoff with “You can also fall up”.
Every Heidenreich achieved first place in the non -fiction books.
“It was always funny” by Hans Krankl and Herbert Prohaska, as well as Yuval Noah Hararis “Nexus” landed behind it. In general, scientific non -fiction books registered the strongest decrease, the turnover here fell by 9.5 percent. Pocket books could grow in the forms of editions (around 19.1 percent). On the other hand, audio books were sold considerably less in the previous year (minus 16.9 percent).
The market in Austria developed more positively than in Switzerland and Germany.
Source: Krone
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