Publishing: Global Industry Guide

Publishing: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Publishing industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

• Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation
• Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies
• Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards
• Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).
• Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global publishing market grew by 1.3% in 2011 to reach a value of $244.4 billion.

In 2016, the global publishing market is forecast to have a value of $273 billion, an increase of 11.7% since 2011.

Books is the largest segment of the global publishing market, accounting for 36.9% of the market's total value.

Europe accounts for 37.9% of the global publishing market value.

Why you should buy this report

• Spot future trends and developments
• Inform your business decisions
• Add weight to presentations and marketing materials
• Save time carrying out entry-level research

Market Definition

The publishing market consists of books, newspaper and magazines segments. The book publishing industry comprises publishers of academic, professional, general and other (fictions, non-fiction etc) books. The market value of this segment refers to the domestic B2C sales of books only at the retail sales price (RSP). The newspaper and magazine segment value is calculated as the revenues generated by publishers from B2C sales of copies of their products, and does not include advertising revenues. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2010 annual average exchange rates.