We value industry-compiled statistics, but this week’s release of 2017 numbers from the UK’s Publishers Association provides a reminder that you need to focus on the data itself rather than the press release (which will always tell that you business is great). Like most of the UK press, we’re going by the headline release rather than the full dataset. (Generally we’ll only report on data that we have seen in full, but the UK coverage is so abundant and confusing, we’re making an exception. What the announcement says is, “The UK publishing industry had a record-breaking year in 2017, with […]