The PA Publishing Yearbook 2016

Welcome to the PA Publishing Yearbook 2016. We hope this new format will make the Yearbook even more accessible while retaining the same quality and standards that ensure it remains the definitive guide to the UK publishing industry.

Highlights:

Total income from physical and digital books and journals up 7% to £4.8bn
Total income from physical and digital books up 6% to £3.5bn
Exports of physical and digital books and journals up 6% to £2.6bn
Total journal income up 10% to £1.2bn
Export sales of physical and digital school books up 11% to £144m
Total sales of physical and digital children’s books up 16% to £365m

These statistics demonstrate what many of us have always known: that the UK publishing industry is a world leader and is flourishing due to the hard work and ingenuity of its superb publishing houses.

Stephen Lotinga, Chief Executive of the Publishers Association

Our thanks go to Nielsen Book Research, which has been responsible for the compilation and analysis of sales data on books and digital products, and Roger Watson, for the data on publishers’ income from rights and coeditions in this yearbook. Many thanks too to Nielsen BookScan for providing assistance and data to help in the yearbook’s compilation, and the participants of our various statistics schemes. Special thanks go to our colleague Mandy Knight for managing the collation, editing and production of the PA Publishing Yearbook 2016.