From: Gary Price <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:27 PM

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Updated stats posted today on the "Academic Publishing" section of the
"Humanities Indicators" site from American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

http://www.humanitiesindicators.org/content/indicatorDoc.aspx?i=88

The number of new academic titles published annually in the humanities
was slightly higher in North America in 2012 than 2009, rising from
48,597 new books published to 51,789 (Indicator IV-12a). In the four
years for which data are available, the annual numbers fell as low as
47,124 (in 2010) and rose as high as 53,015 (in 2011).

While the absolute number of new titles in the humanities increased
from 2009 to 2012, the field’s share of all new academic titles
published in North America contracted slightly, from 45.1% to 42.9%.

Adjusted for inflation, the average list price of humanities print
books increased 6.8% from 2009 to 2012. The price increase was
slightly higher than the change in price for texts in the natural
sciences (which increased 5.0%) but considerably less than the growth
in the average cost of behavioral and social sciences books, the
category that experienced the greatest increase in average price
(17.9%).

More Findings and six charts at:

http://www.humanitiesindicators.org/content/indicatorDoc.aspx?i=88

Coverage Thus Far:

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/11/04/humanities-titles-increased-2009-2012

__gary



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