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Contents
Acknowledgements 5
Introduction 6
Publishing industry survey covering the trade and educational sectors 7
Publishing industry revenue 7
Number of titles published 8
Children's books 8
Legal deposits in recognized repositories 14
What is a legal deposit system? 14
How many books were published and deposited at national legal repositories? 15
Nielsen BookScan data 20
International standard book number (ISBN) registrations data 22
What is an international standard book number? 22
Web of Science data covering the scientific, technical and medical sector 24
Comparing data from various sources 28
Conclusions 31
Annexes 32
Table 1. Total publishing industry revenue by sector, 2021 9
Table 2. Total number of titles published by sector, 2021 11
Table 3. Number of books deposited in recognized repositories, 2021 18
Table 4. Total copies sold and sales revenue, 2018-2021 21
Table 5. Total number of ISBN registrations, 2020-2021 23
Figure 1. Distribution of publishing industry revenue by format, 2021 10
Figure 2. Distribution of publishing industry revenue by destination, 2021 10
Figure 3. Distribution of publishing industry revenue by sales channel, 2021 10
Figure 4. Distribution of titles published by the trade and educational sectors by format, 2021 12
Figure 5. Children's books revenue, 2021 12
Figure 6. Share of children's books within trade sector revenue, 2021 12
Figure 7. Number of children's books titles published by the trade sector, 2021 13
Figure 8. Distribution of children's books within trade sector titles, 2021 13
Figure 9. Number of books deposited in legal repositories, 2018-2021 16
Figure 10. Distribution of books deposited in legal repositories by region, 2021 16
Figure 11. Number of books deposited at selected legal repositories, 2021 16
Figure 12. Distribution of books deposited at selected legal repositories by format, 2021 17
Figure 13. Number of music sheets and music audio deposited at selected legal repositories, 2021 17
Figure 14. Distribution of music sheets and music audio deposited at selected legal repositories, 2021 17
Figure 15. Shares of the top five publishers, based on number of journal titles, 2011 and 2021 25
Figure 16. Shares of the top five publishers, based on article counts, 2011 and 2021 25
Figure 17. Geographical location of authors and publishers, 2021 26
Figure 18. Total number of articles by region, 2011 and 2021 27
Figure 19. International collaboration on articles for the top 10 countries, 2021 27
Figure 20. Total number of titles published according to three different data sources, 2021 29
Figure 21. Number of titles published in print format according to the publishing survey and the legal deposit survey, 2021 30
Annex Tables
Annex A. Domestic currency per USD, period average, 2020 and 2021 32
Annex B. Consumer book (print) market coverage of Nielsen BookScan data, 2021 32
Annex C. Data availability for the number of titles published by format according to the publishing industry survey and the legal deposits survey, 2021 or the latest available year 33