Industry figures for 2004/2005

Total sales were £68.6m, of which £49.6m came from adult titles and £19m from children's - this is a 2% decrease on last year's total sales, but adult sales have increased by 7.8% since last year.

Sales total 5.6m units, of which 3.8m are adult and 1.8m are children's - this is an increase of 1.1m units compared with last year's total.

Adult turnover is split as to £37.4m for abridged titles and £12.2m for unabridged, while children's turnover is split £9.9m for abridged titles and £9.2m for unabridged - this represents increases of 9% for adult abridged titles and 3.4% for adult unabridged titles, and a huge 50% increase for children's abridged titles.

Total cassette sales were £33.4m and CD sales were £35.2m, with unit sales of cassettes totaling 3.2m units and unit sales of CDs totaling 2.4m units - compared with 2003/2004 cassette sales of £42.3m and CD sales of £27.7m. CDs have now outsold cassettes (in terms of sales value) for the first time.