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American publishers fuel the creative economy, advance scholarship and lifelong learning, and promote free expression and the democratic exchange of ideas.
We are the modern publishing industry.
News
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December 18, 2025AAP October 2025 StatShot Report: Overall Publishing Industry Up 6.7% for Month of October, and Up 0.4% Year-To-Date
Trade (Consumer Book) Revenues Up 3.5% for Month of October, and Down 2.3% Year-to-Da...
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December 02, 2025AAP September 2025 StatShot Report: Overall Publishing Industry up 14.4% for Month of September, and Down 0.4% Year-To-Date
Trade (Consumer Book) Revenues Up 10.9% for Month of September, and Down 3.2% Year-to...
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November 25, 2025Association of American Publishers Files Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiffs in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS, A Key AI Case
On November 25, 2025, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) filed an amicus brief in the important AI case Thomson Reuters v. ROSS, an infringe...
Industry Data & Statistics

74%
of Americans have read a book in the past 12 months

1.8
Billion
print books sold by U.S. publishers in 2018

$1.3
Trillion
in value to the U.S. economy added by core copyright industries


