16 January 2023
Something interesting has been going on in publishing this year. Not the thumping increases in overall revenue - up 5 per cent to £6.7 billion across digital and physical books in the UK and Ireland. And not the surge in export markets: despite Brexit, exports are up 8 per cent to English language domains. There is nothing new about the dominance of Anglo-American publishing in a field where English has become a de facto global language - more books in English are published each year than any other language.