Veronis Suhler Stevenson has issued their new annual Communications Industry forecasts covering 20 media segments. They estimate 2007 spending on consumer books was $23.64 billion, with an annual compound growth rate of 3.8 percent since 2002. Their forecast is pretty much more of the same, guessing at 2012 spending of $28.1 billion with five-year annual growth of 3.5 percent a year.Release
