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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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March 20, 2023Statement 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...
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March 17, 2023AAP 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...
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March 15, 2023Authors, 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