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Since its inception in 1989, Simba Information has served as a trusted source for market insights into the educational publishing arena and assisted key decision-makers at over 15,000 client companies across the globe with timely news, analysis, exclusive statistics, and proprietary industry forecasts. Through a bimonthly newsletter, off-the-shelf market research reports, and custom research capabilities, Simba Information ensures clients have access to hard-to-find, granular data on the highly dynamic educational instructional materials and professional publishing industries.
Key topics covered by Simba include the changing market for reading, math, science, and social studies instructional materials; social and emotional learning; supplementary materials; enrollment and demographics; federal and state public policies and budgeting; AI and learning; state textbook adoptions, the changing testing market; ongoing cultural and political textbook issues; professional development; and college course materials.
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Actionable insights: Making informed decisions requires a comprehensive understanding of the market landscape. That’s why Simba Information’s research goes beyond surface-level data and analysis. Simba’s research covers market sizing and forecasts; industry structure; the competitive landscape; company financials and profiles of leading edtech, start-ups, and traditional educational publishers; new product development; government regulations; market challenges and opportunities; digital vs. print trends; educator and student stresses; and other key social and political trends impacting the classroom. Moreover, Simba Information carefully tracks policies and disruptive technologies that could reshape the overall business environment.
Rigorous methodology: The Simba team specializes in education instructional materials and professional publishing markets, providing a higher level of precision and expertise than general-purpose research firms. Simba Information uses a combination of primary and secondary research and competitor interviews to gather financial data and strategic information. Simba’s analysts put the data in historical context and explain the impact of trends and events, so clients can accurately gauge the potential effect on their position in the market.
Strong credibility: As an independent, third-party market research firm, Simba Information’s only goal is to help publishers and tech companies achieve their business objectives and sharpen their go-to-market strategies. With a solid reputation and consistent quality of service, Simba Information has built lasting relationships with top industry players that span decades.
Special Focus on the Professional Publishing Industry
In addition to our expertise on the K-12 and higher education instructional materials and textbook markets, Simba also researches and publishes in-depth market analyses on professional publishing segments including scholarly e-books; global professional publishing; open access books and journals; STM online services; global medical publishing; global scientific and technical publishing; and global social sciences and humanities publishing.
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Simba Information’s research provides authoritative data and analysis that clients cannot find anywhere else — including market size estimates, forecasts, and revenue breakdowns — that can help business strategists make important business decisions with confidence and stay ahead of the competition. Choose Simba Information as your trusted partner in market research and unlock the insights needed to achieve growth and long-term success.
237 Reports from Simba Information – Reports
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2022 National Instructional Materials Adoption Scorecard and 2023 Outlook
2022 National Instructional Materials Adoption Scorecard and 2023 Outlook Simba Information’s latest 2022 National Instructional Materials Adoption Scorecard and 2023 Outlook , finds that states are pursuing a range of tools to address student performance and learning loss. These include legislation ... Read More
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Publishing for the PreK-12 Market, 2023-2024
Publishing for the PreK-12 Market, 2023-2024 Simba Information, in its just released Publishing for the PreK-12 Market, 2023-2024 report, found that total sales of instructional materials reached $9.9 billion in 2022, up 6.3% from $9.31 billion in 2021. The report determined that this market growth ... Read More
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AI In the Classroom 2023-2024: Promises and Perils
AI In the Classroom 2023-2024: Promises and Perils Artificial Intelligence is on the rise in education and educational technology companies along with educational publishers are meeting the demand. Simba Information looked into the rise in AI in education in its report AI In the Classroom 2023-2024: ... Read More
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Open Access Journal Publishing 2023-2027
Open Access Journal Publishing 2023-2027 The transformation underway in global scholarly publishing can appear as orchestrated movement from 1,000 feet, but the impact of open access is very different for every publisher at the ground level. It requires a clear line of sight into the ever-changing d ... Read More
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PreK-12 Instructional Materials Industry Competitive Analysis, 2023
PreK-12 Instructional Materials Industry 2023 Publishers are making a variety of adjustments to what they need to do to be competitive and successful to deal with the major forces and changes confronting this section. These include responding to the lingering effects of pandemic induced lockdowns in ... Read More
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Professional Learning Market, 2023
Professional Learning Market, 2023 Professional Learning 2023 Total spending on US PreK-12 professional development in the 2022-2023 school year was $5.99 billion, up 2.9% from $5.76 billion in the previous year while the global market for corporate learning and development is forecast to grow from ... Read More
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Global Social Sciences & Humanities Publishing 2023-2027
Global Social Sciences & Humanities Publishing 2023-2027 According to Simba Information’s Global Social Sciences & Humanities Publishing 2023-2027 report, published June 2023, the global Social Science and Humanities market totaled $4.49 billion in revenue in 2022 an increase of 0.8% over $4 ... Read More
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PreK-12 Policy & Budget Outlook, 2023-2024
PreK-12 Policy and Budget Outlook 2023-2024 SIMBA Information’s recently released PreK-12 Policy and Budget Outlook 2023-2024 report examines educational policy and funding trends at the federal, state, and local level. On the funding side, both federal appropriations and state budgets for PreK-12 e ... Read More
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K-12 Mathematics Market Survey Report 2023
K-12 Mathematics Market Survey Report 2023 Simba Information’s K-12 Mathematics Market Survey reports on the results from a survey of math teachers and administrators from around the country, asking key questions such as what math programs and products they use, what kind of attributes are desirable ... Read More
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Professional & Scholarly E-Book Publishing 2022-2026
Global Professional and Scholarly E-Book Publishing 2022-2026 In 2021, the top ten competitors in the professional e-book market brought in revenue of $1.16 billion, an increase of 1.8% over 2020 as major e-book publishers rely on acquisitions to build out their platforms and enhance their portfolio ... Read More
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PreK-12 Enrollment and Demographics, 2023-2024
PreK-12 Enrollment and Demographics 2023-2024 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions to the education system, including declines in PreK-12 enrollments and has led to shifts in where and how families choose to educate their children, with some opting for religious or private school ... Read More
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PreK Reading 2023
PreK Reading 2023 Simba has estimated that the total market size for the PreK Reading Instructional Market for 2022 was estimated to be $411 million and is forecast to grow to $447.6 million by 2025. The report also finds that print materials makes up the largest segment of the market by far. Other ... Read More
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2021 National Instructional Materials Adoption Scorecard and 2022 Outlook
2021 National Instructional Materials Adoption Scorecard and 2022 Outlook: The 2021-2022 instructional materials adoption season was a year of recovery for the publishing market, as most districts made decisions in accordance with the traditional academic schedule. While this provided some relief to ... Read More
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Global Professional Publishing 2022-2026
Global Professional Publishing 2022-2026 Simba’s Global Professional Publishing 2022-2026 market research report has found that that the total market for this category is valued at $74.7 billion for 2021, which represents a gain of 4.9% over 2020. This industry includes the following four professi ... Read More
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The State of College Course Materials 2022-2024
State of College Course Materials 2022-2024 What this Report Covers Simba’s State of College Course Materials 2022-2024 has found that college course materials will decrease 3.5% to $3.1 billion in 2022, reversing the previous year’s one year period of positive results. Simba also expects that sales ... Read More
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Open Access Journal Publishing 2022-2026
Open Access Journal Publishing 2022-2026 In today’s global market, it’s more important than ever to understand the changing dynamics of scholarly and professional publishing. Rely on Simba Information’s Open Access Journal Publishing 2022-2026 to build your growth plan for this year and beyond. This ... Read More
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Publishing for the PreK-12 Market, 2022-2023
Publishing for the PreK-12 Market, 2022-2023 Publishing for the PreK-12 Market 2022-2023 addresses the opportunities in the PreK-12 school market and the strategies at work in the industry that provide instructional materials to schools. Simba Information defines the major segments of the instructio ... Read More
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Global Tax, Accounting, and Business Information Publishing 2022-2026
Global Tax, Accounting, and Business Information Publishing 2022-2026 In 2021, the market for business information top competitors in the tax, accounting and business information publishing market generated a total of $28.9 billion, an increase of 10.5% from 2020, powered by strong growth from seve ... Read More
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PreK-12 Testing Market Forecast, 2022-2023
PreK-12 Testing Market Forecast 2022-2023 Simba has estimated that the total market sales of the PreK-12 assessment market reached over $2.825 billion in 2021-2022. Breaking down that figure by key segments, state level summative assessments represent 37.8% of the market, and nearly two-thirds of th ... Read More
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PreK-12 Instructional Materials Industry Competitive Analysis, 2022
PreK-12 Instructional Materials Competitive Analysis 2022 In this report Simba examines the competitive landscape of publishers of PreK-12 instructional materials. The report finds that publishers are making a variety of adjustments to what they need to do to be competitive and successful to deal wi ... Read More
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PreK-12 Enrollment and Demographics, 2022-2023
PreK-12 Enrollment and Demographics 2022-2023 After one and a half years of disruptive learning caused by the pandemic, nearly 100% of PreK-12 students returned to school full time by the third quarter of 2021. During the 2020-2021 school year, there were 18,254 public school districts and 98,609 p ... Read More
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K-12 Supplemental Materials Market
Supplemental Materials Long Abstract The State of the K-12 Supplemental Materials Market: 2022 Simba has estimated the size of the K-12 instructional supplemental materials market to be $3.8 billion in 2020 and is forecast to grow to $4.6 billion in 2024, representing a CAGR of 5.3% and an increase ... Read More
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Global Legal Publishing Report 2022-2026
Global Legal Services 2022-2026 Global legal publishing, recently been driven by new AI, machine learning and other data focused technologies, tools, and product innovations grew during 2021, generating $12.5 billion in revenue, showing recovery from an extended period of lowered growth. Rely on Sim ... Read More
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Social and Emotional Learning: 2022-2023
Social and Emotional Learning 2022-2023 Simba has estimated that sales of social-emotional learning (SEL) instructional materials were $1.725 billion for the 2021-2022 school year; representing an increase of 25.9% over the previous year. Simba has also estimated that year-on-year growth will slow ... Read More
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PreK-12 Policy & Budget Outlook, 2022-2023
PreK-12 Policy and Budget Outlook 2022-2023 More than $190 billion was made available to the education sector via three rounds of federal stimulus funding in 2021-2022, and more than $1.9 trillion in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds were released to state agencies for reopening schools as part of th ... Read More

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