After years of compiling separate but equally incomplete publishing industry statistics, the AAP and Book Industry Study Group (BISG) have finally found common ground and will pool their resources in the future. Their goal is “to develop a new data model to track book publishing industry statistics and to dramatically improve our capacity to estimate the size of market sectors and theindustry as a whole.” Over the next few months the two organizations will interview and survey their members and other interested parties to refine their plan. Management Practices, Inc. which has collected data for the AAP for years, will […]