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signs copies of her children's book,
"I've Loved You Since Forever"
Photo courtesy of Harper Collins Publishers


Save the Children ambassador Jennifer
Garner and author Brad Meltzer at Save
the Children's The Centennial Gala:
Changing the World for Children
Photo courtesy of Penguin Random House


Author Eve L. Ewing signs copies of
her acclaimed books "Electric Arches"
and "Ghosts in the Schoolyard"
Photo courtesy of University of Chicago Press
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We are the modern publishing industry.
News
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April 27, 2021AAP FEBRUARY 2021 STATSHOT REPORT: PUBLISHING INDUSTRY UP 24.7% FOR SECOND MONTH OF 2021, AND 16.4% YEAR TO DATE
Trade (Consumer Book) Revenues Up 19.1% in February and 20.3% Year to...
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April 26, 2021Publishers Celebrate World IP Day 2021: Taking Ideas to Market
As announced by the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, this year’s World Intellectual Property Day shines a light on the critical role of sm...
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April 13, 2021Shelley Husband Named Senior Vice-President, Government Affairs and Special Projects, Association of American Publishers
Association of American Publishers President and CEO Maria A. Pallante today announced that Shelley Husband has been named Senior Vice President, Government Af...
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
