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  • Taiwan Publishing Market Profile 2003 HTML | PDF

    The total book market in Taiwan is estimated locally to be between £0.8bn and £1bn per annum at retail level. This is a sizeable market value for a country of 23 million people. Of this total, probably half is derived from trade books, and 25 per cent from school books. The English-language market is probably around only 5 per cent of the total.The local publishing industry is a surprisingly dynamic and creative one, with a number of effective players, both large and small. There is still a great deal of local fiction and non-fiction publishing still going on, though probably too much now for the recent economic conditions.

  • Thailand Publishing Market Profile 2006 HTML | PDF

    Thailand provides a sizeable, open and strongly growing private-education sector, and a consumer book market where publishing materials are subject to neither government price control nor other mechanisms of official approval. In the education segment, distributors and publishers seek materials where evidence of competitive advantage can be easily communicated to adoption decision-makers who are subjected to a multitude of competing claims from every side. Association with a UK publisher (especially in ELT literacy; early child development, maths and science) provides one such locus of advantage (along with speed-to-market; low investment, and proven pedagogy drivers behind new product launches).

  • 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.

  • Turkey Publishing Market Profile 2004 HTML | PDF

    The local publishing and book retailing business in Turkey is a thriving and highly competitive one, but there are also strong links with European and US publishers. A quarter of the titles published each year are translated, mostly from English. Since 2001, the import market has suffered from the devaluation of the Turkish Lira (TL), but it has now stabilised, and future economic growth and a positive decision on accession to the EU would provide the opportunity for a return to the UK book export levels to Turkey pre-2001 of over £12 million per annum. If the piracy problem could be solved, this would provide further growth potential.