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  • Caribbean Publishing Market Profile 2006 HTML | PDF


    The English-speaking nations of the Caribbean inherited the basic educational system from the UK, and this has proved extremely useful to UK publishers, but the academic market has been ceded to the USA, and local Caribbean publishers are more competitive.

  • Bosnia & Herzegovina Publishing Market Profile 2003 HTML | PDF

    UK publishers have over a 70 per cent share of the imported book market in Bosnia & Herzegovina, which is dominated by sales of English language teaching (ELT) and reference books. They, and other foreign publishers, are well served by a non-restrictive customs and importation regime; three highly professional book importers/distributors, and a stable currency with no foreign exchange problems.

  • Brazil Publishing Market Profile 2005 HTML | PDF

    Type the text here The sheer size of Brazil would appear to make it a valuable market for books, including exports from the UK, but the cyclical nature of Brazil's economy since the last decades of the twentieth century has meant that the potential has never quite been fulfilled. Publishers interested in Brazil therefore need to take the long view; a short-term approach can easily lead to disappointment when a new economic crisis occurs, and expected returns fail to appear, or even worse, turn into losses.  However, there are many factors that make it an attractive market.

  • Brazil Academic Journal Publishing Market Profile 2008 HTML | PDF

    It is becoming extremely hard to sell any new print subscriptions into the Brazilian market, according to Dr Conrad Guettler, author of the PA's Brazil Academic Journal Publishing Market Profile 2008, however new opportunities are presenting themselves with archival or back-file journals collections and the growing interest in e-books. Brazil contributes 1.9 per cent of the total ISI Indexed research papers, and is ranked fifteenth in the world; the country also accounts for 49 per cent of the total Latin American contribution. Most of its journal publishing is in the hands of scholarly societies and research institutions although university presses do publish some journals.