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Professional Publishing: Global Report

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Report Overview

This report forecasts to 2025 and 2029 global demand for professional publishing by product segment and market nominal US dollars. To illustrate historical trends, total demand and the various segments are provided for 2024. Product segments include: online content, including abstracting and indexing; journals; books; and other formats, such as specialized content for conferences and symposia as well as other non-print formats outside the categories of online, software, or database services. Reported markets encompass: tax, accounting, and business; legal; scientific and technical; and medical.

Freedonia quantifies trends in various measures of growth and volatility. Growth calculated as a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) employs, by definition, only the first and last datapoints over a period. The CAGR is used to describe forecast growth, defined as the expected trend beginning in the base year and ending in the forecast year. Readers are encouraged to consider historical volatility when assessing particular annual values along the forecast trend, including in the forecast year.

Other various topics, including profiles of pertinent leading companies, are covered in this report. A full outline of report items by page is available in the Table of Contents.

Related NAICS Codes

NAICS Codes Related to the Publishing Industry
NAICS Code(s) Code Description
511120 Periodical Publishers
511130 Book Publishers
511210 Software Publishers
519130 Internet Publishing & Broadcasting & Web Search Portals

Table of Contents

HIGHLIGHTS

GLOBAL PRODUCT OVERVIEW & FORECASTS
  • Online Content
  • Journals
  • Books
  • Other Formats
GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW & FORECASTS
  • Tax, Accounting, & Business
  • Legal
  • Scientific & Technical
  • Medical
MARKET TRENDS
  • Landscape Shifts
  • The AI Transformation
  • China to Take Lead in R&D Spending
  • Healthcare Spending
INDUSTRY STRUCTURE
  • Leading Professional Publishers
ABOUT THIS REPORT
  • Scope
  • Sources
  • Industry Codes
  • Resources
LIST OF TABLES & FIGURES
  • Figure 1 | Global Professional Publishing Market Outlook, 2025 – 2029
  • Figure 2 | Global Professional Publishing Demand by Product Segment; 2024, 2025E, 2029E (US$ bil)
  • Table 1 | Global Professional Publishing Demand by Product Segment; 2024, 2025E, 2029E (US$ mil)
  • Figure 3 | Global Professional Publishing Demand by Product Segment; 2024, 2025E, 2029E (%)
  • Figure 4 | Global Professional Publishing Demand by Market; 2024, 2025E, 2029E (US$ bil)
  • Table 2 | Global Professional Publishing Demand by Market; 2024, 2025E, 2029E (US$ mil)
  • Figure 5 | Global Professional Publishing Demand by Market; 2024, 2025E, 2029E (%)
  • Table 3 | Leading Professional Publishers; 2023 – 2024 (US$ mil)
  • Table 4 | NAICS & SIC Codes Related to Professional Publishing
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