According to Gardners, Salt's bookshop sales increased by 300% in the last twelve months.
According to their sales reports our books were bought by 329 bookshops, 177 of these were
Waterstone's stores.
Faber, Cape and Picador are all doing very well through bookstores, i've got access to their sales
which I could summarise, though I'm not allowed to give detailed feedback as it would breach my
contract with NielsenBookdata. The sales increase isn't a feature of the poetry itself, its a feature of it
being actively "sold" to bookstores as part of a commercial strategy. On the whole, I don't think
booksellers are making any decisions about poetry based on the content.
Best as
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