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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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July 21, 2026AAP May 2026 StatShot Report: Overall Publishing Industry Up 6.8% for Month of May, and Up 2.6% Year-To-Date
Trade (Consumer Book) Revenues Up 7.6% for Month of M...
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July 20, 2026AAP Welcomes Court’s Final Settlement Approval in Bartz v. Anthropic
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of the parties’ proposed class settlement of certain infringeme...
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July 10, 2026Publishers and Authors File Class Action Lawsuit Against Google for Willful Copyright Infringement to Develop Gemini AI Models
Today, three major publishing houses, Hachette Book Group, Inc., Cengage Learning, Inc., and Elsevier Inc., and best-selling author Scott Turow filed a putativ...
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


