Solid gains in the children’s/YA category, driven by a spike in nonfiction sales, helped lift total April publishing industry revenue to $888.7 million, up 4.4% compared to 2025, according to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot program. Year-to-date industry sales are so far up 1.7% over 2025, at $3.7 billion for the first four months of 2026.