Book Publishing (Global Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the global book publishing industry. The paper gives a snapshot summary, with additional sections on the industry's development, organisation and structure, current conditions and its leading companies and countries.

Global Industry Overview: Book Publishing

The international book publishing industry includes publishers of mass-market, trade, academic, reference, electronic books (e-book), and specialty books. For discussion of other print publishing trades, see also Newspaper Publishing,Periodical Publishing, and Printing, Commercial.

Industry Snapshot

Global spending on books was US$85.3 billion in 2000. In the United States alone the average consumer spent US$103.60 annually on books in 2007. The U.S. Census Bureau predicted that this figure would rise to US$117.45 by 2012. The international book publishing industry faced significant challenges throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century. World demand...

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