Markets + Reports
We map and analyze international book and publishing markets at all levels:
The Global 50 Publishing Ranking 2024 is out!
- This annual report presents a deep dive into around 50 leading publishing organizations worldwide every year since 2007, in cooperation with Bookdao (China), dpr Digital Publishing Report (Germany), Livres Hebdo (France) and Publishers Weekly (USA).
“Publishing Beyond Publishers“, written by Ruediger Wischenbart and Thad McIlroy, explores the rapidly expanding universe of non-traditional publishing models and estimates their growing share of today’s global book business.
- Content today is created and disseminated in a variety of formats (print, digital), media (books, audio, films, games), distribution channels (communities, platforms, streams) and business models (unit sales of products, subscriptions, streaming, freemium, paid models) in mostly digitally defined supply and marketing chains.
Download the full report here.
The Diversity Report series looks into cultural diversity by the example translations of current literary works in European book and publishing markets since 2008. The Diversity Report series has been supported by the Austrian Federal Chancellery and the Slovenian Book Agency);
The Digital Consumer Book Barometer is analyzing in depth digital book markets, covering ebooks, audiobooks, download and subscription sales, in cooperation with with support from Bookwire, DeMarque and Libranda as well as the International Publishing Distribution Association (IPDA) and the Readmagine Festival);
Furthermore, we systematically observe book bestseller charts since 2006 in collaboration with leading international specialist publications, drew a world map of book markets with BookMap, and are active partners to academic research initiatives on digital and analog reading, notably the eRead project.
We discuss current trends and observations from these subject areas on the Booklab.info blog and on LinkedIn.