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  • Saudi Arabia Publishing Market Profile 2006 HTML | PDF

    The market for imported books in Saudi Arabia is predominantly an educational one, with the main sectors being libraries, academic and professional, school and ELT. UK and US publishers dominate the market for English language product, with the UK dominating ELT, while the US publishers have the largest slice of the school and academic textbook market. Saudi Arabia is the second largest export market in the Arab States for UK publishers, after the United Arab Emirates, with sales of £10.1m in 2005 (down to £9.3m in 2006).

  • Singapore Publishing Market Profile 2002 HTML | PDF

    Over the last three years, total book imports on average constituted 40 per cent of the total market size. However, during the same period, retained imports constituted only about 29 per cent of the total market size, since a large number of US- and UK-owned publishing houses use Singapore as their regional stocking and distribution centre. Most of the main UK publishers of ELT materials are represented in Singapore. The largest market is for self-study publications (printed and multimedia) aimed at the major national school examinations. There is also a regular demand for academic and library books from the UK and the USA. American brands such as Prentice Hall, McGraw Hill and Addison-Wesley dominate the academic student market.

  • Czech Republic and Slovakia Publishing Market Profile 2008 HTML | PDF
    The Czech Republic and Slovakia have very well educated and literate populations with long traditions of book-reading and book-buying and today English is the foreign language of choice for most people Taken together they imported nearly £13 m of books  from the UK in 2007, putting them ahead of China, Russia and New Zealand.

     

  • South Africa Publishing Market Profile 2004 HTML | PDF

    Approximately 73 per cent of the books consumed in South Africa are published in South Africa; the rest are imported mainly from the UK and the USA. While the schools market is predominantly local and the higher education market has an increasing proportion of local books, the trade market is still dominated by imported books.

  • South Korea Academic Journal Publishing Market Profile 2007 HTML | PDF

    South Korea boasts over 700 academic societies in science and technology disciplines. In 2004 there were responsible for the publication of some 870 scholarly journals , with most of these publishing articles in Korean only. In higher education, which consists of approximately 380 universities and colleages, and research, libraries have traditionally used subscription agents for foreign acquisitions, but most domestic journals are purchased directly from the societies and institutions that publish them.

  • South Korea Publishing Market Profile 2006 HTML | PDF

    South Korea is the 8th largest publishing market in the world with a minimum retail market size of US$3.7bn (£2bn) and a maximum retail market size of US$8.0bn (£4.4bn). The reason for this massive discrepancy is that many of Korea's largest publishers bundle materials together with education services to add value to their content and exploit the fact that Korea enjoys the highest per household spending on after-school education than any other country in the world.

  • Spain Publishing Market Profile 2005 HTML | PDF

    The Spanish publishing market is polarised in terms of the companies that compete in it. On the one hand, there is the growth of big publishing groups with many subsidiary companies and strong multinational economic support. On the other hand, the base of smaller publishers has atomised, with an ever-increasing number of small, family-owned publishers operating in market niches, including the relatively common practice of authors publishing their own works. In the middle ground, the medium-sized independent publishing houses are finding themselves squeezed: they are not exactly chasing windmills, but almost.

  • Sri Lanka Publishing Market Profile 2004 HTML | PDF

    Over 95 per cent of books imported into Sri Lanka are in the English language. India is the largest supplier, followed by the UK. A proportion of the imports from India is of copyrights generated in the UK, or of books published there. These have either been licensed in India in low-priced editions, or supplied to Sri Lanka in original editions by subsidiary or associated companies of the original UK publisher.

  • Scandinavia Publishing Market Profile 2004 HTML | PDF

     
    English is the language of business and in the tertiary sector in Scandinavia, and is almost universally spoken by the population at large. Its reach benefits UK publishers in terms of the importance and value of Scandinavia as an export market.