The Association of Learning and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP) has released first findings from the Scholarly Book Publishing Practice Survey undertaken by Laura Cox of Frontline GMS and John Cox of John Cox Associates.
During summer 2009, a survey was conducted of 400 publishers known to be active in the scholarly publishing market. Two hundred and forty-three responses were received, representing a 60.75 percent response rate. Of this, 72 responses were discounted from the analysis for a variety of reasons; the balance was 171 publishers, or 42.75 percent, including most of the major scholarly book publishers.
The First Findings summary draws attention to the size and extent of the forthcoming survey; the types of academic publishing currently being undertaken; the reported effect on sales of the ‘Look Inside’ function provided by Amazon; the number of publishers so far signed up to the Google Book Settlement; and the proportion of e-books published by commercial as against non-profit publishers.
The full survey report will be published later in 2009. It is expected to contain vast statistical information about publishing practice areas such as traditional book publishing including sales channels and printing technologies; e-book production and digital file specifications; the services for libraries and licensing terms used for e-books; pricing and business models used for e-books; perpetual access and preservation issues for e-books; e-book revenue development; publishers concerns about the e-book market; and more.
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