Some facts about the book publishing industry:

Number of books produced annually in the U.S.: 4.15 billion (2006 figures)

Number of books sold annually in the U.S.: 3.09 billion (2006 figures)

55 percent of fiction is bought by women, 45 percent by men

Annual revenues of U.S. book publishers: $26.8 billion (2004 figures)

Annual revenues of European book publishers: Euro 22.3 billion (2004 figures)

Number of book publishers in the U.S.: more than 80,000

Number of U.S. book publishers who signed the Book Industry Treatise on Responsible Paper Use initiated by the Green Press Initiative to improve their ecological footprint: about 150