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Number of AAUP members: 125

States with at least one AAUP member: 40, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico

Canadian provinces with at least one AAUP member press: 4

Countries with at least one AAUP member press: 10
Belgium, Canada, China, Egypt, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, The Netherlands, and the United States

AAUP member press size, by annual sales: $250,000 to more than $50 million

Average number of employees per press: 30

Titles published annually per press: between 2 and 2,200

Number of books published by AAUP members in 2005: 10,159

Total number of books published in the U.S. in 2005, all publishers: 172,000

Number of books published by AAUP members, as a % of overall number of books published: 6

Total AAUP member 2005 book sales: $267 million

Total sales increase among AAUP members 2002-2005: 6%

Total number of journals published by AAUP members in 2005: 882

% of 8 Nobel Prize in Literature winners since 1999 who have published with AAUP members: 62.5

% of 15 Nobel Prize in Economics winners since 1999 who have published with AAUP members: 93.3

Number of living US Presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize: 1

% of above who have published books with university presses: 100

Increase in Consumer Price Index (CPI) from 1989-2000: 39%

% increase in average suggested retail price of a scholarly book 1989-2000,
university presses: 14

% increase in average suggested retail price of a scholarly book 1989-2000,
commercial scholarly presses: 23

% increase in average suggested retail price of a philosophy book 1989-2000,
university presses: 13

% increase in average suggested retail price of a philosophy book 1989-2000,
commercial scholarly presses: 120

 

Updated 4/09/07

The information presented here was gathered from a variety of sources:
The 2007 AAUP Directory of Presses; 2005 AAUP Titles Published Survey; 2002-2005 AAUP Annual Press Statistics; AAP Statistics; The Price of University Press Books, 1989-2000.