Regular Membership in the Association of American Publishers (AAP) is open to all U.S. companies actively engaged in the publication of books (print and digital), journals, and related electronic media including digital, CD Rom, video and audio tape, computer software, audiovisual material, database and similar products for educational, business and personal use. This includes book producers, packagers, and co-publishers that are actively engaged in a major portion of the creation of books or copyrightable educational materials for distribution by another organization.
Regular Member companies and all of their publishing divisions and subsidiaries belong to the Association and to the division or divisions that represent their primary product and market areas.
University Press Associate Membership in the AAP is open to any U.S. University Press organized as a not-for-profit organization and actively engaged in the publication of books (print and digital), journals, and related electronic media including CD-Rom, video and audio tape, computer software, audiovisual material, database and similar products for educational, business and personal use.
University Press companies and all of their publishing divisions and subsidiaries belong to the Association and to the division or divisions that represent their primary product and market areas.
University Press Associate Members are entitled to all the benefits of membership with the exception of the right to vote on general Association business or to automatically serve on the AAP Board of Directors as a representative of their own organization. University Press members of AAP may, however, choose to elect the member representative of one of their organizations to serve on the AAP Board.
Membership in a division is optional for a University Press Associate Member.
University Press organizations also have the option of choosing Regular Membership in the Association.
Not-For-Profit Associate Membership in the AAP is open to all U.S. companies organized as a not-for-profit organization actively engaged in the publication of books (print and digital), journals, and related electronic media including digital, CD Rom, video and audio tape, computer software, audiovisual material, database and similar products for educational, business and personal use. This includes book producers, packagers, and co-publishers that are actively engaged in a major portion of the creation of books or copyrightable educational materials for distribution by another organization.
Not-For-Profit Associate Members are entitled to all the benefits of membership with the exception of the right to vote on general Association business or to automatically serve on the AAP Board of Directors.
Membership in a division is optional for a Not-For-Profit Associate Member.
Not-For-Profit organizations also have the option of choosing Regular Membership in the Association.
Affiliate Associate Membership in the AAP is open to companies providing services to the book publishing industry. There are some restrictions to this membership. It is non-voting and members are not eligible to serve on the Board of Directors or to be a member of an AAP Division.
The annual dues for this membership will be based on sales of materials or services your company provides for the book (print and digital) and journal and related media publishing industry.