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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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May 05, 2026Publishers and Authors File Class Action Lawsuit Against Meta and Zuckerberg for Willful Copyright Infringement to Develop Llama AI Models
Today, five major publishing houses, Elsevier Inc.; Cengage Learning, Inc.; Hachette Book Group, Inc.; Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC d/b/a Macmillan Publishe...
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April 24, 2026Publishers Celebrate World IP Day 2026 - IP and Sports: Ready, Set Innovate
As announced by the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, this year’s World Intellectual Property ...
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March 31, 2026Book, News, and Journal Publishers Join with Authors in Amicus Brief in Support of Music Publishers in Concord v. Anthropic
On March 30, 2026, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), News/Media Alliance (N/MA), International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical P...
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


