Consultants at the Institute for Publishing Research conduct rigorous empirical research on all aspects of the book publishing industry, both domestic and foreign issues.

Their research studies on book publishing appeared in a number of scholarly journals (e.g., the Journal of Media Economics, the Journal of Cultural Economics, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing) as well as in a series of books (e.g., The Book Publishing Industry; The Media and Entertainment Industries, Access for All: Closing the Book Gap for Children in Early Education) and major research studies (e.g., Book Industry Trends 1999, Book Industry Trends 2000, Book Industry Trends 2001, Book Industry Trends 2002, Book Industry Trends 2003, Book Industry Trends 2004, Book Industry Trends 2005, The Bowker Annual 1999, The Bowker Annual 2000, The Bowker Annual 2004 and The Bowker Annual 2005).

In addition, their articles on statistics and forecasting appeared in the Proceeding of the American Statistical Association, Communications in Statistics, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematical Review, Biometrika, Sanyka (Series B), Technometrics, the Annals of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, and Biometrical Journal.

Book Sales Index

The digital Book Sales Index, or BIX, provides managers with comprehensive and authoritative 2008 estimates and 2009-2013 projections for net publishers' revenues and net publishers' units in all of the key channels of distribution (book stores; specialty retailers; educational adoptions; libraries and institutions; and internet sales) for all major book categories (trade; religion; book clubs and book fairs; mail order; professional-scholarly; education; university press; standardized tests; and subscription reference).

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