This announcement comes straight from Publisher's Lunch:
"After years of compiling separate but equally incomplete publishing industry statistics, the AAP [Association of American Publishers] 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 the industry 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 develop the new prototype data model.
"The organizations 'expect to have a comprehensive, joint statistical resource product in place by January 2011.' They anticipate this new compilation will replace the BISG's once-useful annual Trends report.
"As a result of the transition, BISG will not issue a Trends report this spring for 2009 data. BISG deputy executive director Angela Bole notes 'the importance of this critical data has not changed, but the requirements for its collection and dissemination have. Also, since we expect the joint AAP/BISG product to be in place by January 2011, we didn't see need to release Trends a mere six months earlier.' She underscores that 'we believe this collaborative effort will do more than update the data on book sales: it will provide new and valuable analysis of a rapidly changing industry.'"
I wonder how this new data model will track things like this:
Barnes & Noble to Launch Publishing Service for Indie Pubs and Self Publishing
Barnes & Noble pubit! Page
AmazonEncore: Unearthing Exceptional Books and Emerging Authors for More Readers to Enjoy
Amazon Launches Translation Imprint, AmazonCrossing
I'd say things are getting very interesting.
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