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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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January 25, 2023Julia A. Reidhead, Chairman and President of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., Elected Chair, AAP Board of Directors
Washington, DC — The Association of American Publishers announced today that its Directors have elected Julia A. Reidhead as Chair of the Board for the 2023-...
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January 20, 2023AAP November 2022 StatShot Report: Overall Publishing Industry Down 6.0% Year-To-Date, and 14.4% for Month of November
Trade (Consumer Book) Revenues Down 13.7% for Month of November, and 6.1% Year...
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December 22, 2022AAP October 2022 StatShot Report: Publishing Industry Down 5.1% Year-To-Date and Down 9.3% for October
Trade (Consumer Book) Revenues Down 13.7% in October, and Down 5.1% Year-to-Da...
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