This short video, produced for UK Publishing, offers a useful
overview of the UK publishing industry

Welcome to UK Publishing

The Publishers Association and The London Book Fair have created a book fair partnership designed to promote the UK book trade at major international book fairs.

To facilitate the promotion of the UK book trade overseas, UK Publishing is offering exhibiting opportunities at Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Bologna, Book Expo America , Dubai and New Delhi Book Fairs. The aim is to increase the export of English language books, to promote rights opportunities and to demonstrate the strength and breadth of the UK publishing industry.

Opportunities to join UK groups are open to any company, small or large, involved in the publishing industry.

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Importance of Book Exports to the UK Publishing Industry

UK publishers’ book exports account for an exceptionally high proportion of the book industry’s £3 billion sales – around 38% of total by value and 42% per cent by volume in 2008:  a higher percentage than that of any other national book publishing industry.

Export book sales stood at 357m units in 2008, worth £1141m (up 24% by volume and 26% by value since 2004).
 
The export market is particularly important to publishers of academic/professional books and school/ELT books), with export sales by value accounting for 35 % and 27% respectively. Europe was the largest region for book exports, with 39%, followed by East and South East Asia (14%). 

Substantial revenue is also earned by the global licensing of publishing rights, subscriptions to electronically delivered content and the remittance of profits from overseas subsidiaries. A significant proportion of this revenue, especially that raised by the foreign rights sales of UK authors, is generated by literary agents.

Source: UK Book Publishing Industry Statistics Yearbook 2008, The Publishers Association 2009/Office for National Statistics December 2008