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Industry Spotlight:
Publishing

The publishing industry makes sales every year in the billions of dollars. There are books, magazines, newsletters, CDs, and videos. With new publishing paradigms like print-on-demand and e-books, the industry is expanding rapidly.

  • Book publishers sold $358.3 million worth of books in February of 2006. That’s right, in a single month. That’s up 12.3% from the previous year.
  • Up to 11,000 new publishers open their doors every year.
  • The sales of wholesale e-books grew from under $2 million to over $8 million in the last five years.
  • Amazon has over 90,000 different magazines available.
  • Sales in the self-help publishing market grew 7.9% last year.
  • The Who’s Mailing What! Archive has tracked 16,802 mailings related to the publishing industry.
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Published: September 5, 2007

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