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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.

  • Japan Publishing Market Profile 2005 HTML | PDF

    Japan remains a huge book market, despite a number of years of apparent stagnation. At its height in 1989, 941 m books were sold in that year but by 1997 sales had fallen to a mere 875 m and since then has experienced a decline in nearly ever year.  However, despite this decline in books purchased, it is interesting to note that borrowing from libraries has shot up dramatically, and that the number of bargain bookshops has expanded. Add to this the growth of coffee shops where customers can read manga (Japanese comic books), and it becomes clear that the appetite for the printed word is still enormous.

     

  • Jordan Publishing Market Profile 2008 HTML | PDF

    Although a small and relatively poor country, not well endowed with natural resources like its Middle East neighbours, Jordan has a good reputation for education according to Rob Francis, author of the PA's Jordan Publishing Market Profile 2008.  The internal educational book market is restricted in a variety of ways but the trade market is beginning to be developed.