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Covering the years 1998-2008 with enriched data and insights from more that two dozen industry leaders.
Prepared for the Book Industry Group, Inc., by the Center for Communications and Media Management at Fordham University's Graduate School of Business Administration, with interviews and commentary by Gayle Feldman, contributing editor of Publishers Weekly and author of Best and Worst of Times: The Changing Business of Trade Books 1975-2002.
CONTENTS
Preface
SUMMARY DATA
Executive Summary
By Robert H. Wharton and Albert N. Greco
Publishers' Net Dollar Sales
Publishers' Units
Summary Data by Channel
Domestic Consumer Expenditures
TRADE PUBLISHING
"What are we going to do to gain share?"
By Gayle Feldman
Total
Adult
Total
Hardbound Paperbound
Juvenile
Total
Hardbound
Paperbound
Mass Market Paperback: Rack Size
Book Clubs
Mail Order Publications
RELIGIOUS PUBLISHING
"Driven by the mission"
By Gayle Feldman
Total
Hardbound
Paperbound
By Category
PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING
"Moving from a print to a print-and-electronic world"
By Gayle Feldman
Total
Hardbound
Paperbound
By Category
UNIVERSITY PRESSES
"We have come through the worst of it"
By Gayle Feldman
Total
Hardbound
Paperbound
ELHI PUBLISHING
"We'll be hanging on by our fingernails until 2005"
By Gayle Feldman
Total
Hardbound
Paperbound
COLLEGE PUBLISHING
"In the midst of a changing model"
By Gayle Feldman
Total
Hardbound
Paperbound
STANDARDIZED TESTS
SUBSCRIPTION REFERENCE
SMALL AND INDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHERS: AN ANALYSIS OF SALES DATA
By Robert M. Wharton and Albert N. Greco
U.S. BOOK EXPORTS AND IMPORTS, 1998-2003
By Robert M. Wharton and Albert N. Greco
LIBRARY ACQUISTIONS DATA
"People ask for all of it"
By Gayle Feldman
All Libraries
Public Libraries
School Libraries
College and University Libraries
Special Libraries
METHODOLOGY, CONVENTIONS AND DEFINITIONS
By Robert M. Wharton and Albert N. Greco
STATISTICS FOR THE BOOK INDUSTRY
Compiled by Michael Psaltis
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