Especially novels
Austrians are buying more books again
Austrians bought more books again last year. Total sales rose by 4.7 percent, while brick-and-mortar bookstores increased by five percent. Fiction recorded the biggest increase (9.7 percent).
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen Austrian author and cabaret artist Thomas Stipsits was the bestseller last year, this time with his "Allerheiligen-Fiasko". He was followed by Sebastian Fitzek with "Das Kalendermädchen" and Joachim Meyerhoff with "Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen".
Elke Heidenreich took first place in the non-fiction category with "Ageing".
"Lustig war's immer" by Hans Krankl and Herbert Prohaska and Yuval Noah Harari's "NEXUS" were immediately behind. Overall, scientific non-fiction recorded the sharpest decline, with sales falling by 9.5 percent. In terms of editions, paperbacks increased (by 19.1 percent). Audiobooks, on the other hand, sold significantly less in the previous year (down 16.9 percent).
The market in Austria developed more positively than in Switzerland and Germany.
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