Book Publishing Market Saw Steady Title Growth in 2011

Overall, publishing output is dominated by a handful of large reprint/POD houses. In fact, the top three—Bibliobazaar, General Books and VDM Verlag—accounted for more than 72 percent of the total yearly output in 2011. The largest POD publisher was Bibliobazaar with 773,857 ISBNs.

The other leading houses based on ISBNs are:

• General Books — 249,871
• VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K. — 68,509
• CreateSpace — 57,512
• International Business Publications, USA — 14,294
• Kessinger Publishing — 13,395
• AuthorHouse — 10,644
• Literary Licensing — 9,721
• Xlibris Corp. — 8,152

Bowker, an affiliated business of ProQuest, has produced the venerable Books In Print bibliographic database, a go-to resource for the entire book business, for more than 50 years. Numbers for its annual output report are gathered as a result of the company’s maintenance of this essential work and reported through PubTrack Production Trends Analysis.