Datamonitor's Publishing Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the publishing industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global publishing market generated total revenues of $383,646 million in 2006, this representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.3% for the five-year period spanning 2002-2006.

Advertising sales proved the most lucrative for the global publishing market in 2006, generating total revenues of $149,226 million, equivalent to 38.9% of the market's overall value.

The performance of the market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 3% for the five-year period 2006-2011 expected to drive the market to a value of $444,640 million by the end of 2011.

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Definition

The publishing market consists of books, newspapers and magazines. The market's value is calculated as the revenues generated by publishers from hard or electronic copies of their products, as well as from advertising within those products. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2005 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this profile, Europe is deemed to consist of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Russia.

Asia-Pacific consists of Australia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, India, and Singapore.

The Americas is comprised of Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Mexico.

The global market consists of Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas.