Penguin Random House (PRH) strengthened its grip on the picture book bestseller lists, claiming 40% of total available list positions in 2023, up from 33% the year before.
PRH's dominance would be even greater if titles from Sourcebooks were included. Sourcebooks had 26 books on the lists, taking 10.8% of all positions.
On the children's frontlist fiction list, PRH increased its share of bestseller positions to 17.8% from 13.5% the previous year, denting Scholastic's dominant position.