A turning point in the way we look at the book industry.

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Book Industry TRENDS 2006 reflects a giant step forward. Data sources for this flagship research publication now cover the sizable and growing segment of the U.S. book publishing market that consists of companies with annual revenues of up to $50 million, as well as the segment comprising larger companies that TRENDS previously tracked.

Despite their segment’s size and surging numbers, small and midsize publishers have been all but invisible in the aggregate. This is primarily because they are scattered across the country; because many of them don’t belong to book-industry trade associations; and because they tend to sell not only through book-trade channels that are routinely monitored but also -- and in quantity -- through sales channels designed mainly to serve other industries, which the book industry does not study.

Three years ago, BISG initiated efforts to capture reliable data about small and midsize publishers with the goal of providing a more comprehensive view of the publishing industry. As a result of its surveys and analyses since then, the figures in Book Industry TRENDS 2006 now reflect sales throughout the entire book publishing universe.

No longer limited to information from and about traditional publishing houses and bookselling channels, and no longer limited by narrow governmental or industry definitions, we can now unveil an up-to-date report that reveals a substantially larger industry.