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Spec Market Scorecard

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.

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