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News
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March 27, 2024The Association of American Publishers Announces 2024 PROSE Award Winners for Excellence and the R.R. Hawkins Award
Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Duke University Press, and ...
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March 26, 2024AAP December 2023 StatShot Report: Overall Publishing Industry Up 0.4% for Calendar Year 2023, and Down 2.5% for Month of December
Trade (Consumer Book) Revenues Down 1.2% for Month of December, and 0.3% for F...
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March 15, 2024Publishers File Brief Opposing Internet Archive Appeal of Loss
Today, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Random House, and Wiley (the “Plaintiffs”), filed a brief opposing Internet Archive’s ...
Industry Data & Statistics
74%
of Americans have read a book in the past 12 months
1.8
Billion
print books sold by U.S. publishers in 2018
$1.3
Trillion
in value to the U.S. economy added by core copyright industries