Consumer expenditure on recreational books in the United States amounted to 29.32 billion U.S. dollars in 2023, up from just under 27.5 billion a year earlier. Americans tend to spend around 22 billion U.S. dollars on recreational books each year, but the years 2021 to 2023 saw the figure reach and then surpass levels last seen in the early 2000s.
Consumer expenditure on recreational books in the United States from 1999 to 2023
(in billion U.S. dollars)
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Archival FRED. (September 26, 2024). Consumer expenditure on recreational books in the United States from 1999 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 19, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/192861/consumer-expenditures-on-recreational-books-in-the-us/
Archival FRED. "Consumer expenditure on recreational books in the United States from 1999 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars)." Chart. September 26, 2024. Statista. Accessed December 19, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/192861/consumer-expenditures-on-recreational-books-in-the-us/
Archival FRED. (2024). Consumer expenditure on recreational books in the United States from 1999 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 19, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/192861/consumer-expenditures-on-recreational-books-in-the-us/
Archival FRED. "Consumer Expenditure on Recreational Books in The United States from 1999 to 2023 (in Billion U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 26 Sep 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/192861/consumer-expenditures-on-recreational-books-in-the-us/
Archival FRED, Consumer expenditure on recreational books in the United States from 1999 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/192861/consumer-expenditures-on-recreational-books-in-the-us/ (last visited December 19, 2024)
Consumer expenditure on recreational books in the United States from 1999 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph], Archival FRED, September 26, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/192861/consumer-expenditures-on-recreational-books-in-the-us/
