“Travel Publishers Seem Determined to Persevere”
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.24.02 | 1:41 AM ET
Conventional wisdom had it that sales of travel books would bottom out post-September 11. And, immediately, the numbers were down. American travel bookstores were reporting sales drops of 15 to 50 percent. Four months later though, according to a detailed report by Lucinda Dyer in Publishers Weekly, the outlook has improved. Guidebook sales are mostly up, and armchair travel books are a continuing bright spot for booksellers. Some bookstores, like Traveler’s Bookcase in Los Angeles, have even shifted their displays to give more exposure to travel narratives and literature. “The result: increased sales of books by Bill Bryson and Pico Iyer and the Travelers’ Tales series,” writes Dyer.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
