Thursday, October 23, 2014

UK publishes more books per capita than any other country, report shows

UK tops chart of publications per million inhabitants by a huge margin, with only China and US publishing more titles in absolute terms

Literary agent Jonny Geller described the UK figures as 'either a sign of cultural vitality or publi
Neverending story … literary agent Jonny Geller described the UK figures as ‘either a sign of cultural vitality or publishing suicide’. Photo: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images
UK publishers released more than 20 new titles every hour over the course of 2014, meaning that the country published more books per inhabitant than anywhere else in the world.
According to a new report from the International Publishers Association (IPA), UK publishers released 184,000 new and revised titles in 2013. This equates to 2,875 titles per million inhabitants, and places the UK an astonishing 1,000-plus titles ahead of second-placed Taiwan and Slovenia (1,831). Australia is considerably lower, at 1,176, while the US published just 959 titles per million inhabitants.
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