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in the
Power of
Words
There are More Than140 Million Published Booksin the World
AAP Members Are on the Leading Edge of Education, information & Entertainment Publishing
AAP Publisher MembersSupport, Recognize & Reward Thousands of Creative, Academic, Infomational and Trade Authors

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.

News

  • March 20, 2023
    Statement of the Association of American Publishers on Oral Arguments in Infringement Suit Against Internet Archive

    For more than 90 minutes this afternoon, Judge Koeltl of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York heard oral arguments in the copy...

  • March 17, 2023
    AAP January 2023 StatShot: Overall Publishing Industry Up 3.5% for Month of January

    Trade (Consumer Book) Revenues Up 3.1% for Month of January The As...

  • March 15, 2023
    Authors, Publishers, and other Copyright Industries Join Forces to Protect the Creative Economy

    Broad Coalition Focused on Fighting Attacks on Intellectual Property Right...

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

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