Industry Statistics: Looking Behind the Numbers
To the extent that this raw data reflects a broad profile of marketplace behavior, it can be a valuable measure of month-to-month changes and sector volatility within each year, as well as year over year.
“The benefits of having two reports allows the industry to analyze data based on how the user may want to analyze the data, based on the individual methodologies,” says Jordan. “… Over the past year, we have also worked with organizations such as the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association to capture complementary data in the religious category, and the International Digital Publishing Forum in the e-book category. And we are in preliminary discussions with the Audio Publishers Association to see how we may be able to pool our resources.”
- 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.