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Publishing marketing message: 6

The UK publishing industry is one of the most culturally and commercially diverse in the world.

• The UK book publishing industry has a number of highly successful independent companies, including Faber & Faber, Icon, Canongate, Atlantic, Short Books, Portobello and Quercus.

• The UK has thousands of very small publishing operations run by individuals or co-operatives, which publish in specialist areas such as poetry, art and regional or local-interest subjects.

• The UK publishing industry has spawned successful niche publishers for minority groups, including feminist, gay and lesbian writing, writing from ethnic minorities and literature in the UK’s indigenous Celtic languages.

• UK book publishers are increasingly developing strategies for publishing translations from other languages.

Sources

All facts and figures sourced from The Publishers Association