FOUR MILLION NEW BOOKS IN 2025

Wednesday 1 April 2026

FOUR MILLION NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2025

Bowker is a publishing services company with a stellar reputation and a loooong track record. Statistics are a big part of what they do. In March, Bowker reported that OVER FOUR MILLION NEW BOOKS WERE PUBLISHED IN 2025. That is a staggering odd to face as an author. Yet, writers keep churning out the books. Of course, it says they were “published” which means made available on some digital platform and in print. Still, that’s a daunting number to keep in mind when writing and hoping to publish a book. Or trying to be a reader, for that matter.

The flipside of the issue is to ask what book sale revenues were for 2025. Here’s the good news: book sales rose in 2025 due to a better than expected December for print (yay!)

U.S. Book Sales Finished 2025 with a Strong December; Adult Trade Finishes Down Slightly for the Year

I’ve know since I was ten-years-old that I was going to be a writer. Lots of people arrive at this place later in life and that’s fine, but what keeps us going? Especially in the face of so much competition. The answer is: CONNECTION.

Writing connects the writer to an inner landscape of intellectualism, which is where they find the seeds of what to write about.

Reading connects the reader to their inner landscape in a way that answers questions, solves problems, and creates more questions that can lead to more exploration.

Was that too cerebral?

Four million books published.

One billion in sales.

Should I keep diving into the ink pool? What do you think?

Writer: why do you keep writing?

Reader: why do you keep reading?

Do the numbers support or stymie you?

What do you think?

Be well, write well!

~Joy

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