News & Trends: Book Sales Forecast to Grow (Slightly)
The new "Book Industry Trends 2009" report suggests "flat is the new up," but moderate growth is on the horizon for the next two years.
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Dissent Over Data
There were 130,477 active publishers in 2008, according to U.S. ISBN agency R.R. Bowker, a 27-percent increase over 2007. Most of this increase was within the $50 million per year or less small-publisher category, according to “Trends.” This data has been questioned by some industry observers, however, including Publishers Marketplace’s Michael Cader, who questions the “aggressive sales] estimates” for the small publishers category. His article following BEA in his Publishers Lunch e-newsletter, titled “The Problem with Statistics: BISG’s New Method Still Inflates the Unknown,” takes issue with the report’s methodology.
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- People:
- Michael Cader
- Michael Healy
- Places:
- U.S.
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Matt Steinmetz
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Matt Steinmetz is the publisher and brand director of Publishing Executive.
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