Global Publishing industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2016-20, and forecast to 2025). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.
Key Highlights
- The publishing market consists of books, newspapers and magazines.
- The book publishing segment includes publishers of academic, professional, general and other (fictions, non-fiction etc) books. The market value of this segment refers to the domestic B2C sales of books only at the retail sales price (RSP).
- The newspaper segment is valued as the sum total of all revenues gained from the sale of newspapers including those gained through circulation, subscription (inc. online subscription), and advertising revenue.
- The magazine segment value is calculated as the revenues generated by publishers from B2C sales of copies of their products, and does not include advertising revenues.
- All market data and forecasts are represented in nominal terms (i.e. without adjustment for inflation) and all currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2020 annual average exchange rates.
- The global publishing market had total revenues of $245.1bn in 2020, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of -1.9% between 2016 and 2020.
- The books segment was the market's most lucrative in 2020, with total revenues of $131.9bn, equivalent to 53.8% of the market's overall value.
- The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe disruption to almost all global markets, including publishing. Footfall at physical bookstores has been reduced due to nationwide lockdown restrictions, whilst widespread economic uncertainty has discouraged unnecessary spending on products such as magazines and paid subscriptions.
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Table of Contents
1 Executive Summary
2 Introduction
3 Global Publishing
4 Publishing in Asia-Pacific
5 Publishing in Europe
6 Publishing in France
7 Publishing in Germany
8 Publishing in Italy
9 Publishing in Japan
10 Publishing in Australia
11 Publishing in Canada
12 Publishing in China
13 Publishing in The Netherlands
14 Publishing in Spain
15 Publishing in The United Kingdom
16 Publishing in The United States
18 Appendix
List of Tables
List of Figures
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA
- News Corp
- Lagardere SCA
- Penguin Random House LLC
- Pearson plc
- Axel Springer SE
- Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH
- Sudwestdeutsche Medien Holding GmbH
- Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A.
- RCS MediaGroup SpA
- GEDI Gruppo Editoriale SpA
- EFFE 2005 - Gruppo Feltrinelli SpA
- The Asahi Shimbun Company
- Nikkei Inc
- Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd
- Seven West Media Limited
- The Woodbridge Company Ltd
- Torstar Corporation
- China Publishing Group Corp
- China South Publishing & Media Group Co Ltd
- Promotora de Informaciones SA
- Grupo Planeta
- Harpercollins Publishers L.L.C.
- Daily Mail and General Trust plc
- Gannett Co., Inc.
- The New York Times Company