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Contents
Acknowledgements 5
Introduction 6
Publishing industry data 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
IPA and Nielsen BookData survey 24
Education infrastructure 24
School and higher education enrollment 25
Number of publishers in IPA member countries 25
Comparing data from various sources 28
Conclusions 30
Annex A. Domestic currency per USD, period average, 2020-2022 31
Annex B. Consumer book (print) market coverage of Nielsen BookScan data, 2022 32
Table 1. Total publishing industry revenue by sector (USD million), 2022 9
Table 2. Total number of titles published by sector, 2022 11
Table 3. Number of books deposited at recognized repositories, 2022 18
Table 4. Total copies sold and sales revenue, 2019-2022 21
Table 5. Total number of ISBN registrations, 2021-2022 23
Figure 1. Distribution of publishing industry revenue by format, 2022 10
Figure 2. Distribution of publishing industry revenue by destination, 2022 10
Figure 3. Distribution of publishing industry revenue by sales channel, 2022 10
Figure 4. Distribution of titles published by the trade and educational sectors by format, 2022 11
Figure 5. Children's books revenue (USD million), 2022 12
Figure 6. Share of children's books within trade sector revenue, 2022 12
Figure 7. Number of children's books titles published by the trade sector, 2022 12
Figure 8. Distribution of children's books within trade sector titles, 2022 13
Figure 9. Number of books deposited at legal repositories, 2018-2022 16
Figure 10. Distribution of books deposited at legal repositories by region, 2022 16
Figure 11. Number of books deposited at the top 20 legal repositories, 2022 16
Figure 12. Distribution of books deposited at selected legal repositories by format, 2022 17
Figure 13. Number of music sheets and music audio deposited at selected legal repositories, 2022 17
Figure 14. Distribution of music sheets and music audio deposited at selected legal repositories, 2022 17
Figure 15. Total number of schools for selected countries, 2022 25
Figure 16. Total number of higher education institutions for selected countries, 2022 26
Figure 17. Student enrollment at schools for selected countries, 2022 26
Figure 18. Student enrollment at higher education institutions for selected countries, 2022 26
Figure 19. Total number of publishers for selected countries, 2022 27
Figure 20. Variation in total number of titles published according to three different data sources, 2022 29
Figure 21. Number of titles published in print format according to the publishing survey and the legal deposits survey, 2022 29