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.