Industry Statistics: Looking Behind the Numbers
It is interesting to observe, incidentally, how trade organizations have been coping with transformative challenges over the years.
The Publishers Marketing Association (PMA) is no more. It is now PMA, The Independent Book Publishers Association. The Christian Booksellers Association (CBA) has morphed into CBA, The Association for Christian Retail. Open eBook Forum (OeBF) has made a clean break to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and the Small Press Center in Manhattan is now the New York Center for Independent Publishing (NYCIP).
- 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.