Record Year for British Publishing in 2019 (publishersweekly.com)

The total invoiced value (or publishers’ sales to accounts) of U.K. publisher sales rose to £6.3 billion in 2019, 4% higher than in 2018 and 20% higher than in 2015, making 2019 the biggest year ever for U.K. publishing. The Publishers Association’s new figures, released in its annual “Yearbook” report, shows growth in both print and digital sales. The significance of export sales is underlined by the report: exports accounted for 59% of total sales.

Other headline facts include: print sales up 3% to £3.5 billion; digital sales up 4% to £2.8 billion; home sales up 4% to £2.4 billion; export sales up 3% to £3.7 billion; consumer audiobook downloads sales up 39% to £97 million, and nonfiction and reference sales up to 6% to £1 billion.
more detail at source: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/83918-record-year-for-british-publishing-in-2019.html

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