Title page
Contents
Acknowledgements 5
Introduction 6
Publishing industry survey covering the trade and educational sectors 7
Revenue generated by the trade and educational sectors 7
Titles published by the trade and educational sectors 7
Children's books 8
Legal deposits survey 14
What is a legal deposit system? 14
How many books published and deposited at national legal repositories 15
Nielsen BookScan data 18
International standard book number (ISBN) registrations data 20
What is an international standard book number? 20
Web of Science data covering the scientific, technical and medical sector 22
Main publishers of journals and articles 22
Data comparison of different sources 25
Conclusions 27
Annexes 28
Table 1. Total publishing industry revenue by sector, 2020 9
Table 2. Total number of titles published by sector, 2020 10
Table 3. Number of books deposited in legal repositories, 2020 16
Table 4. Total copies sold and sales revenue, 2018-2020 19
Table 5. Total number of ISBN registrations, 2020 21
Figure 1. Distribution of publishing industry revenue by format, 2020 9
Figure 2. Distribution of publishing industry revenue by destination, 2020 10
Figure 3. Distribution of publishing industry revenue by sales channel, 2020 10
Figure 4. Distribution of titles published by the trade and educational sectors by format, 2020 11
Figure 5. Children's books revenue, 2020 12
Figure 6. Share of children's books within trade sector revenue, 2020 12
Figure 7. Number of children's books titles published by the trade sector, 2020 12
Figure 8. Share of children's books in the number of titles published by the trade sector, 2020 13
Figure 9. Number of books deposited in legal repositories, 2018-2020 15
Figure 10. Distribution of books deposited in legal repositories by region, 2020 15
Figure 11. Number of books deposited at selected legal repositories, 2020 16
Figure 12. Distribution of books deposited at selected legal repositories by format, 2020 16
Figure 13. Shares of the top five publishers, based on number of journal titles, 2010 and 2020 23
Figure 14. Shares of the top five publishers, based on article counts, 2010 and 2020 23
Figure 15. Subjects covered by the database, based on articles published, 2020 24
Figure 16. Geographical location of authors and publishers, 2018 24
Figure 17. Total number of titles published according to three different data sources, 2020 26
Figure 18. Number of titles published in print format according to the publishing survey and the legal deposit survey, 2020 26