Published in: The Chronicle Review

"Each year Book Industry Study Group publishes a report on sales and revenue trends in the publishing industry, and one chapter covers university presses. The 2006 report shows anemic revenue growth from 2004-5 of 1.3 percent -- $460 million to $465.8 million. Worse, unit sales actually went down -- 24.7 million units to 24.5 million units. And the prediction is that through 2010 unit sales will remain flat. . ."

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