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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

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    Today, November 9, 2026, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Victor Marrero issued a default judgment in Apress Media,...

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    Book and Journal Publishers File Amicus Brief in In Re: OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation

    Today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), the Independent Boo...

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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