(Recap from the lecture)
The Publishing industry in the UK is worth approximately £4.5bn - 60% of industry sales in the UK actually take the form of books. Penguin books are the biggest publishers in the country (and possibly the world, keeping in mind that they own puffin books too).
An increasing demand in small press has seen another rise in figures - people start to want books for beauty, and thanks to this, companies such as Nobrow now benefit from larger custom. Children's books are also ever in circulation thanks to nostalgia value - books read when parents were younger are often repurchased to read to their own children.
The publishing industry in the UK is the biggest outlet of the creative industries, easily beating the turnover of TV, music, and film industry exports according to modern day figures.
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