Industry Statistics: Looking Behind the Numbers
Useful and reliable industry information always has been hard to come by. But in the past century, we have been blessed by devoted professionals who have labored in the halls of such organizations as the Census Bureau, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Association of American University Presses (AAUP), BISG, and R.R. Bowker and Knowledge Industry Publications (original publishers of BP Report and Educational Marketer, and predecessor to Simba Information) to unearth the data that define our business.
- Companies:
- Amazon.com
- American Booksellers Association
- Association of American Publishers
- Book Publishing Report
- Bowker
- Consortium
- Evangelical Christian Publishers Association
- Fordham University
- Independent Publishers Group
- National Association of College Stores
- National Book Network (NBN)
- Nielsen Media Research
- PMA
- Publishers Weekly
- Simba Information
- The Book Industry Study Group
- Places:
- Manhattan
- United States
Eugene G. Schwartz is editor at large for ForeWord Reviews, an industry observer and an occasional columnist for Book Business magazine. In an earlier career, he was in the printing business and held production management positions at Random House, Prentice-Hall/Goodyear and CRM Books/Psychology Today. A former PMA (IBPA) board member, he has headed his own publishing consultancy, Consortium House. He is also Co-Founder of Worthy Shorts Inc., a development stage online private press and publication service for professionals as well as an online back office publication service for publishers and associations. He is on the Publishing Business Conference and Expo Advisory Board.