Annual book publishing industry survey report
Beth Le Roux2013
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Abstract
Book clubs and mail order booksellers Leisure Books/Leserskring, Sunday Times Book Club, etc. Corporation direct sales Business to business sales: corporate gift packagers, legal and accounting firms, etc. Direct sales to the public Website, telephonic and contact sales to members of the public. Libraries and library suppliers Public libraries, academic libraries, institutional research libraries and specialist booksellers serving these clients. State and provincial institutions Departments of Education and government institutions. Schools Suppliers that supply books directly to schools. School book suppliers Holders of provincial tenders to supply school books to schools. Other types of outlets This category includes staff, authors, NGOs and a variety of other types of outlets.
Key takeaways
- Turnover profile by activities, which was specifically broken down into turnover of local product by sub-sector and language; turnover of imported product by sub 1.7 Difficulties encountered during the survey
- • General trade books accounted for 27.5% of the turnover of all print books.
- • School books contribute 93.7% to the total turnover of locally published educational books.
- • General trade books accounted for 13.8% of the net turnover value of all locally published books.
- • Adult books contributed 80.3% to the total turnover value of imported general trade books.
