Industry Statistics: Looking Behind the Numbers
Data is expensive to come by in almost any industry composed of thousands of enterprises and channels of distribution. And for those who assemble it, the data is understandably an asset to be monetized. Nonetheless, the information comes through to the industry at large—by way of press releases and copies that are passed around, as well as bird-dogging by trade magazines such as Book Business, and reporters such as Jim Milliott at Publishers Weekly, Michael Cader at Publishers Lunch, Frank Romano––whose affiliations, including Printing Industries of American/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, are too numerous to cite––or John Mutter at Shelf
Awareness.
- 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.