The craze for the most recent adventures ofAsterix in Lusitania (Hachette, 2025) and the trilogy of The Housekeeper (I learn, 2023), by Freida McFadden, helped restrict the harm. Without these two heavyweights, the publishing market would have fallen by 4.9% in quantity in 2025. On arrival, the sector fell by 1.6% to three.9 billion euros final 12 months, which represents 307 million copies of recent books (−2.5%) based on NielsenIQ. “The decline in readership is notably linked to a arbitrage of our available time and to competition with online media and social networks”, explains Vincent Montagne, president of the National Publishing Union (SNE).
The publishing market has kind of returned to its 2019 stage. Mr. Montagne, additionally CEO of Media Participations (Le Seuil, Dargaud, Dupuis, and so forth.), notes that, since that date, “the importance of literary prizes has gone up a notch”. The Goncourt Prize, The Empty Houseby Laurent Mauvignier (Minuit, 2025), approached 500,000 copies in 2025 whereas the Prix Médicis, Kolkhoz, by Emmanuel Carrère (POL, 2025), bought 223,000 copies. Another pattern was confirmed in 2025: the decline in quantity of comics (−8.9%), as a result of collapse of manga.
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