From: Michael Mabe <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 14:13:08 +0100
Sally
Mark Ware and I are in the final phase of correcting the 2012 edition.
I hope by the end of the year if not the end of the month the new
edition of the STM Report will be freely available from the STM
website.
Best, Michael
Michael A Mabe
Chief Executive Officer
International Association of STM Publishers
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From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 17:57:47 +0000
When's the new STM report due out?
We are just finalising our proofs for the 'Handbook of Journal
Publishing', and would like our stats and references to be as up to
date as possible!
Sally Morris
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU
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From: Michael Mabe <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:38:45 +0200
I think the confusion about the size of the STM segment arises from a
misreading of Outsell and other data. The Outsell data for all STM is
close to the US$19b quoted in the thread below (US$20b in recent
reports). This includes not just journals but databases, secondary
publishing, medical data and geodata (which is huge). When Mark Ware
and I have tried to disentangle this for our figures in the STM Report
(http://www.stm-assoc.org/2009_10_13_MWC_STM_Report.pdf )- new edition
due in October - we estimated the contributions to overall sales of
journals to be about US$8b in 2008 which would be roughly US$9b at the
moment, allowing for sales growth.
Sally's observation about the size of the UK chocolate market is one I
have also made; we all think the STM journal sector is huge but it is
tiny compared to the consumer market, even for quite specialised
things. The total value of all UK journal subscriptions in one year is
also equal to the annual sales value for Christmas puddings.
Best, Michael
Michael A Mabe
Chief Executive Officer
International Association of STM Publishers Prama House, 267 Banbury
Road OXFORD, OX2 7HT, UK
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Web: www.stm-assoc.org
-----Original Message-----
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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