June Bookstore Sales Virtually Same as Year Ago
Bookstore sales for June showed no improvement over last year, and actually slipped a fraction of a percentage point by comparison with June 2001. Preliminary June bookstore sales figures of $1,200 million were down 0.1 percent from the $1,201 million of the previous June.
June is the fifth month in a row in which bookstore sales failed to keep pace with overall retail.
Overall retail sales of $302 billion for June 2002 came in 1.3 percent over the $298 billion realized in June of 2001.