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Romance and Sensibility By The Numbers

January 18, 2020 Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year where we crunch the numbers from the books we’ve reviewed on this blog in 2019. We keep track using a review tracking spreadsheet in Google Sheets and turn it into an infographic on Canva. This isn’t indicative of all our reading because theYA / Adult blog has its own stats and there are books we’ve read that haven’t been reviewed.



Publisher Breakdown

37% Indie/Self Pub*

26% Harper Collins

17% Penguin Random House

9% Simon & Schuster

4% Sourcebooks

2% Hachette

2% Kensington

2% Macmillan

*indie/self-pub incluces Zach Prown and Prosaic Press


Imprint Breakdown

17% Avon

15% Berkley

4% Carina

4% Gallery

4% Casablanca

2% Amistad

2% Atria

2% Voyager

2% Jove

2% Forever

2% Crimson

2% Dafina


Retailer Breakdown

19.5% Kindle Unlimited

17.3% For promotional purposes

13% Scribd

10.8% Amazon.com

6.5% Fountain Bookstore

6.5% Libro.fm

4% Public Library

4% Netgalley.com

4% Audible.com

4% Edelweiss.com

2% Barnes & Noble (BarnesandNoble.com)



Diversity

32% Romance Novels Feature Two POCs



Everything about these numbers feels pretty accurate to our 2019 reviewing. In 2018 I was in the Avon Addicts program and it skewed the 2018 number of print books and historicals higher.  I also think it is interesting that a large chunk of our books were self-published. I don’t think I could have predicted that when I started this blog, but self-pub authors are doing so many interesting things.

We don’t set out to read a certain quota of diverse books but I’m glad we have so many more books with POC heroes and heroines. The LGBQA number went up by 5% but I’d like to focus on adding in more #ownvoices. – K. E Hamilton


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