The number of
“traditionally” produced print titles rose 3.3% in 2012 to 301,642, according
to new figures from R.R. Bowker. The total includes print books from both
traditional publishing houses and self-publishers, but not works from
nontraditional companies that specialize in reprints of public domain titles.
Output from those companies rose 10.9%, to 1.46M. Taken together, total print
output rose 9.5% in 2012 to 1.761M. Number of fiction print books rose 10%, to
47,420; juvenile titles rose nearly 6%, to 2,624. Between 2009–the
year ebooks began to make meaningful inroads in the industry–and 2012, print
output fell by less than 1%.
