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Publishing houses in the Book Publishing industry have faced challenging operating conditions in recent years. Consumers are increasingly buying print books online rather than shopping at local bookstores, which has limited domestically published book demand. Traditionally, local publishers have relied on parallel import restrictions (PIRs) to protect their revenue. These restrictions prevent Australian companies from importing recently published books at a large scale, so that they cannot immediately undercut publishers’ prices. Although major foreign book retailing websites can offer foreign-published books directly to individual Australian consumers, solid demand for trade books (which are purchased in bulk and sold through traditional book retailers) has supported the industry’s performance in recent years. Industry revenue is expected to contract at an annualised 0.5% over the five years through 2023-24, to $1.9 billion. This trend includes an anticipated drop of 1.8% in the current year as discretionary incomes fall.
Industry revenue has declined at a CAGR of 0.5 % over the past five years, to reach an estimated $1.9bn in 2023.
Market size is projected to decline over the next five years.
Company | Market Share (%)
2024 | Revenue ($m)
2024 |
---|---|---|
Penguin Random House Australia | 186.0 | |
Pearson Australia | 148.8 | |
Scholastic Australia | 120.0 |
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Industry revenue is measured across several distinct product and services lines, including Adult fiction books, Adult non-fiction books and Children's books. Adult fiction books is the largest segment of the Book Publishing in Australia.
Educational books publishers are providing digital resources that complement their books
Industry players publish books, atlases, textbooks, travel guides and ebooks. Firms that publish books exclusively on the internet are excluded from the industry.
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ANZSIC 5413 - Book Publishing in Australia
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The market size of the Book Publishing industry in Australia is $1.9bn in 2024.
There are 905 businesses in the Book Publishing industry in Australia, which has declined at a CAGR of 2.0 % between 2018 and 2023.
The market size of the Book Publishing industry in Australia has been declining at a CAGR of 0.5 % between 2018 and 2023.
Over the next five years, the Book Publishing industry in Australia is expected to decline.
The biggest companies operating in the Book Publishing market in Australia are Penguin Random House Australia, Pearson Australia and Scholastic Australia
Educational books and Adult non-fiction books are part of the Book Publishing industry.
The company holding the most market share in Australia is Penguin Random House Australia.
The level of competition is high and steady in the Book Publishing industry in Australia.