WIPO statistic database 2016-2019 | Publication year: 2020 | Including total net publishing industry revenue stats | download (PDF) source (WIPO)
To improve the availability of statistical data for the creative economy, the International Publishers Association (IPA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conducted a pilot survey to compile publishing statistics in 2017. In all, 35 national publishers associations (NPAs) and copyright authorities shared their 2016 data covering the publishing industry. Results from the piloted survey were published in The Global Publishing Industry in 2016 report. The following year in 2018, 53 countries/territories responded to the survey and shared their 2017 data with WIPO.
To improve survey response rate and data quality, WIPO organized a technical workshop in April 2019 that brought together a selected number of experts to review the questionnaire and the data collection process (see annex A1 for a list of the expert contributors to the workshop). Based on this expert input, the methodological guidance attached to the questionnaire was refined and the questionnaire simplified.
This report presents the latest publishing statistics compiled from the following sourc- es: (a) the IPA–WIPO publishing survey, (b) the Centro Regional para al Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC), (c) WIPO’s legal deposits survey, (d) the Nielsen Company, (e) the International ISBN Agency, and (f) the Web of Science database.
Publishing industry data are not unified under a single authority. For this reason, the report presents data from additional sources to provide a broad picture of the publishing indus- try. One drawback to this approach is that data from these sources may provide conflicting information about market size and the evolu- tion of activity within the publishing industry due to differences in methodology and market coverage. That said, compiling data from additional sources does enable users to validate and/or supplement the data compiled through the IPA–WIPO questionnaire.
(Table - Total net publishing industry revenue covering the trade and educational sectors, 2018 (USD million)
download (PDF) source (WIPO)
To improve the availability of statistical data for the creative economy, the International Publishers Association (IPA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conducted a pilot survey to compile publishing statistics in 2017. In all, 35 national publishers associations (NPAs) and copyright authorities shared their 2016 data covering the publishing industry. Results from the piloted survey were published in The Global Publishing Industry in 2016 report. The following year in 2018, 53 countries/territories responded to the survey and shared their 2017 data with WIPO.
To improve survey response rate and data quality, WIPO organized a technical workshop in April 2019 that brought together a selected number of experts to review the questionnaire and the data collection process (see annex A1 for a list of the expert contributors to the workshop). Based on this expert input, the methodological guidance attached to the questionnaire was refined and the questionnaire simplified.
This report presents the latest publishing statistics compiled from the following sourc- es: (a) the IPA–WIPO publishing survey, (b) the Centro Regional para al Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC), (c) WIPO’s legal deposits survey, (d) the Nielsen Company, (e) the International ISBN Agency, and (f) the Web of Science database.
Publishing industry data are not unified under a single authority. For this reason, the report presents data from additional sources to provide a broad picture of the publishing indus- try. One drawback to this approach is that data from these sources may provide conflicting information about market size and the evolu- tion of activity within the publishing industry due to differences in methodology and market coverage. That said, compiling data from additional sources does enable users to validate and/or supplement the data compiled through the IPA–WIPO questionnaire.
(Table - Total net publishing industry revenue covering the trade and educational sectors, 2018 (USD million)
download (PDF) source (WIPO)
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