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By Jim Calder

AAUP by the Numbers

The Association of American University Presses has provided the following statistics about its members in the university press segment of the industry.

125—Number of AAUP members

90—Number of U.S. university presses that are members of AAUP

10—Number of countries with at least one AAUP member press

$250,000 to more than $50 million—AAUP member press size by annual sales

30—Average number of employees per press

2 to 2,200—Range of titles published annually by AAUP-member presses

$267 million—Total AAUP member 2005 book sales

1—One book in every 10 new books published in the United States is published by a university press.

$1—of every $50 spent to purchase books in the United States is spent on a university press book.

10,000—Approximate collective number of books published each year by AAUP members.

Source: AAUP

The Association of American University Presses (AAUP)—an organization of nonprofit publishers whose members strive to advance scholarship through their offerings—believes that the university press segment’s fundamental mission has not changed since America’s oldest university press, The Johns Hopkins University Press, was founded in 1878. However, the landscape in which its members operate has changed greatly, and the forecast calls for additional change in the future. As throughout the rest of the publishing industry, driving this change are advances in digital technologies.

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