It
was a record-breaking year for BBC Worldwide’s
consumer publishing products. BBC Worldwide’s
video and DVD titles achieved phenomenal sales;
BBC Books became the UK’s biggest hardback
non-fiction publisher; and BBC Audiobooks
won eighteen Spoken Word Awards, including
Publisher of the Year. In total, some 22 million
books, videos, DVDs and audio products were
sold.
BBC Worldwide is one of the UK’s leading
distributors of video and non-film DVDs. With
31% global growth, it had a remarkable year.
Runaway success, confounding even the most
optimistic forecasts, was The Office on video
and DVD. More than one million units were
sold, making it the UK’s best-selling
video/DVD TV title ever. |
The company’s
long-standing commitment to DVD is now paying
off as DVD penetration reaches 23% of the
UK population*, a trend dramatically illustrated
by The Office where the ratio of DVD to video
sales was 70:30 in favour of DVD. BBC titles
on DVD have also enjoyed excellent sales in
Europe, the USA and Australia. Across Asia
and the Pacific, BBC consumer publishing sales
grew by 38%. |
Now
the UK's biggest hardback non-fiction publisher
both by value and by volume, BBC Books became
market leaders in gardening and history titles
as well as in both food and drink, and TV
tie-in, titles. 
