The Centre for Economics & Business Research (CEBR) sums up the highlights from its Bookselling Britiain report, commissioned by the Booksellers Association, which assesses bricks-and-mortar booksellers' contribution to the UK economy.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sir Peter Bazalgette’s independent review into the Creative Industries has been released, revealing that the sector could be worth £128.4 billion to the UK economy by 2025 if a “sector deal” can be done between the government and the industry.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshops contribute £1.9bn to the UK economy every year and pay 11 times more corporation tax than Amazon, according to statistics published in a new report commissioned by the Booksellers Association.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Report finds that newsbrands generated £4.8bn revenue, supported 87,500 jobs and invested £97m in digital services while holding power to accountThe news publishing industry contributed £5.3bn to the UK economy in 2015, according to a Deloitte report commissioned by the News Media Association...
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[ Source: The Guardian | 2016-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The wider publishing industry – including book, journal, newspaper and magazine publishing - was worth more than £9.9bn to the UK economy in 2013, 3.2% up from the year before, according to newly released government statistics.
The rise is slightly above the 2013 UK annual inflation rate of 2.5%.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]