Jason Scoggins at the blog Life On The Bubble has a new spec market scoreboard post. This one analyzes sales from January – mid June 2009. Some interesting stats:
Overall Spec Numbers:
|
|
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun* |
Total |
|
Specs (Total) |
28 |
60 |
77 |
46 |
40 |
16 |
267 |
|
Sales (Total) |
3 |
9** |
8 |
9 |
10 |
3 |
42 |
|
% Sold (Total) |
11% |
15% |
10% |
20% |
25% |
19% |
16% |
And then by genre:
Spec Sales By Genre:
|
Genres (sales) |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Total |
% of Sales |
|
Action |
|
1 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
|
6 |
14% |
|
Comedy |
2 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
|
1 |
15 |
36% |
|
Drama |
|
|
|
|
4 |
1 |
5 |
12% |
|
Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
|
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
|
4 |
10% |
|
Thriller |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
13 |
31% |
Comedy and thriller continue to dominate sales by genre, combining to comprise two-thirds of the overall number of scripts sold.
Jason provides a lot more numbers and analysis on his site, so be sure to go there and check it out.

