Industry Statistics: Looking Behind the Numbers
Updating Data-Gathering
Methods
For BISG, “Trends” is a major data-
gathering and interpretive program, and is BISG’s most costly program. It utilizes data gathered by Robert M. Wharton and Albert Greco at Fordham University from numerous sources such as trade associations, quarterly reports of major publishers, Wall Street financial analysts, U.S. government and private statistical agencies, national and international non-governmental organizations, and financial institutions. These are then folded into a complex forecasting model explained in detail in the report.
- 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.