Quarterly Updates put the book trade into a wider context by highlighting many key consumer characteristics and trends, including data on the book market, both at home and overseas. An overview of BML's latest research projects are also presented, keeping subscribers up-to-date with the latest findings from the book trade and beyond.
Subscribing to BML's Quarterly Updates will keep you up-to-date with the general consumer market and specific surveys which impact on and relate to the book trade.
A yearly subscription is £140 and includes both print and electronic versions of the publication.
The following sections are regularly included:
- Market Trends
- Consumer Spending on Books - a quarterly update from Books and the Consumer
- Graphically illustrated trend for the quarter covering the cumulative and year on year trends within the GRM using BookScan sales data from The Bookseller
- Consumer Confidence index
- Recent BML Projects, for example
- Expanding the Market
- World Book Day
- CAPP Student Survey
- Short Stories
- WHSmith 'People's Choice' Book Awards
- General Publishing
- Audio books
- eBooks
- Cultural Diversity in Publishing
- Harry Potter
- Book clubs
- Libraries
- Services to Schools and Children
- Visitor numbers
- Book loans
- Most borrowed authors
- Academic
- Student income and expenditure
- Student spending on books
- Subjects studied
- Enrolments in higher education
- Education
- Key stage and GCSE attainment
- Class sizes
- Teacher numbers
- Children
- Favourite Books
- TV viewing
- Attitudes toward reading
- Online spending
- Lifestyle
- Household expenditure
- Leisure and Cultural activities
- Spare time
- Older people
- Other Media
- Digital Television & Digital Radio take-up
- Internet
- Connectivity and Broadband take up
- The online consumer
- Global and local internet usage
- eMarketing
- Spam
- eCommerce
- International
- American book publishing
- American book retailing
- European data
- Company Figures
- UK and international figures for publishers, retailers, wholesalers and library suppliers