The figures come from a press release by the Swedish Booksellers Association and the Swedish Publishers Association. It also shows that sales at physical bookstores increased by 7.8 percent, while digital subscription services grew by 6.3 percent.
Fiction continued to be the largest genre, with sales of SEK 533 million, an increase of 3.4 percent. Fiction accounted for 38.5 percent of total sales.
Children's and young adult literature sales increased by 4.1 percent to SEK 211 million, while non-fiction sales decreased by 5.8 percent.
