Who We Are
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.
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