Personanondata: BISG BookStats

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

BISG BookStats - Live Webcast

BISG has announced two webinars to discuss the recent release of BookStats:

During each Webcast, representatives from the BookStats data team will provide a comprehensive look into how BookStats was developed and what trends were discovered. The presentation will include analysis of several top line data points as well as a tour through the interactive BookStats Online Data Dashboard.

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Wed, August 31, 2011

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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Wed, September 7, 2011

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern

Spanning 2008-2010, BookStats offers data and analysis of the total industry and the individual Trade, K-12 School, Higher Education, Professional and Scholarly markets. Produced jointly by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), its highlights include:

Overall U.S. publishing revenues are growing

Overall U.S. publishing unit sales are up as well

Americans, young and old, are reading actively in all print and digital formats

Education publishing holds steady and, in some segments, shows solid growth Professional and Scholarly publishing shows gains

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Michael Cairns

Michael Cairns is currently Head of Partner and Channel Development for the publishing unit of the American Psychological Association which is a $100million scholarly, academic and educational publisher. In this role, he is responsible for all sales and marketing activities supporting the revenue base and working with current and new partners to expand APA's publishing program and mission. Michael Cairns has served as President, CEO and CRO of several brand name publishing, technology and content-centric businesses. His career includes a wide range of publishing and information products, services and B2B categories and his operating and consulting experience has largely been with brand-name companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Macmillan, Inc., Berlitz International, AARP, R.R. Bowker and Wolters Kluwer. Mr. Cairns has also served on boards including the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and also served as Chairman of the International ISBN Executive Committee.