The structure of the American book publishing industry

Szenberg, Michael; Lee, Eric Youngkoo

doi:10.1007/bf01079762

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“…US (Szenberg and Youngkoo Lee, 1994;Greco, 2000), Denmark (Hjort-Andersen, 2000) and UK (Allen and Curwen, 1991), far less attention has been devoted so far to Italy. Since our empirical analysis is based on Italian data, it seems worthwhile to motivate our analysis and to briefly summarize the economics of the book publishing industry by reporting some descriptive statistics for Italy.…”

Section: The Book Publishing Industry In Italymentioning

confidence: 98%

Demand distribution dynamics in creative industries: The market for books in Italy

Gaffeo

Scorcu

Vici

2008

Information Economics and Policy

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a b s t r a c tWe studied the distribution dynamics of the demand for books in Italy. We found that for each of the three broad sub-markets into which the book publishing industry can be classified -Italian novels, foreign novels and non-fiction -sales over a three-year sample can be adequately fitted by a power law distribution. Our results can be plausibly interpreted in terms of a model of interactions among buyers exchanging information on the books they buy.

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Section: The Book Publishing Industry In Italymentioning

confidence: 98%

Demand distribution dynamics in creative industries: The market for books in Italy

Gaffeo

Scorcu

Vici

2008

Information Economics and Policy

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“…Since the publishing business does not require great capital investments, economies of scale cannot act as a barrier to entry for new competitors [29]. Besides, the incoming companies do not find other barriers to access the publishing market [9,17].…”

Section: Book Sales and Publishing Businessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the number and size of publishers, academic literature observed that there are no economies of scale, that is, a minimum size of production high enough to act as a barrier to entry and avoid the existence of a large number of publishers and exclude a high degree of competition [29]. Besides this, the publishing industry hardly presents other barriers to entry [9,17].…”

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What are the Driving Forces Behind Spanish Publishers?

Magadán-Díaz

García

2022

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This research intends to perform a situation analysis of the Spanish publishing sector to see to what extent private publishing companies adequately interpret market signals and adapt to them. The study raises several questions for the Spanish publishing market: first, how is the price elasticity of the sale of copies?; second, what impact does the greater or lesser number of private publishers have on the sale of copies?; third, how does the sale of copies condition the evolution of the average print run?; and fourth, what impact does reading habit have on issue sales? The analysis carried out concludes: firstly, that the sale of copies is a price-elastic function to the price of books; second, that the greater the number of publishing agents, the higher the level of book sales; thirdly, those publishing companies adapt the average print runs per title in a period based on the copies sold on the market in the previous period and, finally, fourthly, the existence of a positive and direct relationship between the copy sales and the number of regular readers. Spanish publishers face digital transformation -and changes in their respective business models-, without losing sight of the variables studied that act as driving forces for their behavior and design their strategy in the market.

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“…Szenberg and Lee (1994) have investigated the various organizational elements of book publishing industry of America. The evidences produced by the study suggested that there is a balance from the structural perspective which makes the industry as a workable competitive environment.…”

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Unravelling bibliophiles' preference on the basis of bestseller lists in India

Khajuria

Gopinathan

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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This study investigates different genres in Indian book market to establish a clear understanding of dominating genres in the market. The focus of the study is in tandem with two groups: fiction and non‐fiction books on the basis of 52 weeks' bestsellers list. The model employs a point system constructed by mapping performance score of different genres. By using these performance scores, Kruskal‐Wallis H test and Mann–Whitney U test are performed. The results show that there is a significant difference between each genre but one particular genre stands out the most in both the categories. Romance in Fiction category and Self‐help in non‐fiction category dominates the Indian book market as shown by the study. This evidence has a far‐reaching implication toward the understanding of the dynamics of genre preferences in India.

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The structure of the American book publishing industry

Cited by 12 publications

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Demand distribution dynamics in creative industries: The market for books in Italy

Demand distribution dynamics in creative industries: The market for books in Italy

What are the Driving Forces Behind Spanish Publishers?

Unravelling bibliophiles' preference on the basis of bestseller lists in India

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