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Research and Markets: A Global Industry Guide to Books: Spot Future Trends and Opportunities in this Growing Market with Detailed Research & Market Forecasts

DUBLIN, Ireland-(Business Wire)-September 5, 2008 - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ee24a3/books_global_indu) has announced the addition of the "Books: Global Industry Guide" report to their offering.

Books: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the books industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

- Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

- Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

- Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

- Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).

- Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

- The global books market grew by 4.6% in 2007 to reach a value of $127.5 billion.

- In 2012, the Global books market is forecast to have a value of $160.7 billion, an increase of 26% since 2007.

- Sales of general trade & consumer books account for 63.4% of the global book markets value.

- The Americas accounts for 47.4% of the global book markets value.

Why you should buy this report

- Spot future trends and developments

- Inform your business decisions

- Add weight to presentations and marketing materials

- Save time carrying out entry-level research

Market Definition

The book publishing industry comprises publishers of academic, professional, general and other trade (fictions, non-fiction etc) books. This industry excludes magazines or newspaper publishing. Market value refers to the domestic sales of books only at the retail sales price (RSP). Any currency conversions used in this report are at the 2007 constant annual average exchange rate.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Key Topics Covered:

- Global Books

- Books in Asia-Pacific

- Books in Europe

- Books in Belgium

- Books in Canada

- Books in China

- Books in France

- Books in Germany

- Books in Italy