From: Dan Strempel <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 09:26:48 -0400
Just noticing an error in my last message. Simba's estimate is $10.3
billion for global STM journal publishing, all languages in 2011. My
apologies.
Dan Strempel
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:06 PM
Chocolate is way more popular than STM publishing :-)
In all seriousness, the total size of the Journal market in 2011
including all languages was $11.3 billion. English is still most of
that.
When you start to breakdown publishers' revenue and consider book
publishing, online services (not related to journal content) and other
revenue streams, you'd be hard pressed to say the journal market is much
larger than that. There's just not that much revenue to support a
higher figure.
Best,
Dan Strempel
Senior Analyst
Business & Professional Group
Simba
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From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:36:58 +0100
There are no accurate estimates for the global value of the total
scholarly journals market (believe me, I've looked!). In 2010 Simba
estimated the market for English-language journals in STM (the largest
sector) at $8.147bn. This is pretty small in the overall scheme of
things - in the same year the market for chocolate and confectionery in
the UK alone was approx $7.72bn, according to KeyNote!
Sally Morris
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU
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From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:23:00 -0700
This is all very helpful. And it supports the view that no number about
publishing can be taken at face value.
Now for another number: Where in the world does that $19 billion figure
for worldwide STM journal sales come from? That's a huge number. What
could possibly be in there? Add up the journals businesses at Wiley,
Elsevier, Springer, T&F--and throw in Kluwer, Sage, ACS, and some
others, and you don't get near that figure, or near 50% of that figure.
Joe Esposito
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