📚💻Today we have released Publishing in 2024, our annual UK Publishing industry statistics. Discover the key information and see our stats summary:

2026 will be the National Year of Reading! The campaign was launched at Downing Street yesterday, aiming to reverse the trend of declining enjoyment of books, as just one in three young people aged 8 to 18 have said they enjoy reading in their free time in 2025.

This June has seen a group of key strategies published by the government. Get to grips with what they are and what they mean for the publishing sector:

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In our series of Industry Insights webinars, we've been exploring topics that help publishers grow. In this clip, Searsha from @Shimmr_AI helps with the first hurdle with using AI for productivity - deciding what you might automate. (👇)

Meet the speakers for next week's webinar as we prepare to get a deep dive into some of the reader trends driving publishing in 2025:

Insight from readers, the industry, and comment from Publishers Association CEO Dan Conway in this article on yesterday's stats:.

RT @thebookseller: ICYMI: A boom in audiobooks drove publishing growth in 2024, further bolstered by growth in fiction, according to a new….

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You can read the Turning the Page report on our website:

All of us in the publishing industry, and the charities and organisations we work with, must ensure we are addressing this crisis as a priority. The Publishers Association released the Turning the Page report earlier this year, informed by publishers and reading charities, which.

It’s incredibly disappointing to see that the children’s reading crisis has become entrenched. The benefits of children reading for enjoyment include developing literacy skills which will be valuable throughout their lives, allowing them to explore their sense of self,.

Excited to be part of the expanded Discover! Creative Careers programme. .

The next webinar in our series is next week, Tuesday 3rd May. Meet our speakers and find out more:

We welcome BookTrust’s Reading Rights report, which demonstrates the value of reading as a vital early building block in a child’s development. Alongside our report, Turning the Page: A plan to revive reading for enjoyment, the case is clear for taking action to ensure that.

Publishers Association President Mandy Hill writes in LabourList about UK publishing’s influence throughout the world, demonstrated in our new report. The article explores how books and journals play a vital role in sharing research from our world-class universities and spark.

We thank the government for continuing to recognise the importance of this vital part of the UK’s IP framework for the publishing sector and wider British business, following our cross-sector Save Our Books campaign advocating for this outcome. Read more:

The UK government has today announced that the temporary exhaustion regime for intellectual property rights, introduced post-Brexit, will be made permanent. This key decision prevents the importation to the UK of unauthorised international editions, which risks undercutting the

Congratulations! 🎉 Fantastic to support this important category and see all the brilliant publishing talent across the shortlists and winners at the #BritishBookAwards.

At our AGM, we were thrilled to welcome Mandy Hill, Managing Director, Academic at @CambridgeUP as our new President. A huge thank you goes to outgoing President Perminder Mann, CEO of @simonschusterUK, who will remain part of our Council and Officer team. We also warmly