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DUBLIN, Ireland(Business Wire)Research and Markets( http://) hasannounced the addition of the "Children's Publishing Market Assessment 2008"report to their offering. The UK market for children's books was worth an estimated 775.8m atmanufacturers' selling prices (msp) in 2007. This represents an increase of 2.9on the previous year and a 24.5 rise in value since 2003. Children's books, including fiction, non-fiction, picture books and schoolbooks, represent almost a quarter of the total UK book market They are thusenormously important to the industry. Encouraging children to read for pleasurecould also result in greater sales of adult books in the future. The high-profile launch of the National Year of Reading at the beginning of 2008was followed by the launch of the Early Years Foundation Stage framework inSeptember of the same year. This framework seeks to ensure that children beginlearning at a young age and have a grounding in key skills by the time theystart school.
This can only help publishers and booksellers in the educationsector, and it has resulted in a number of major acquisitions of educationalpublishers and an influx of capital from private-equity firms, keen to invest ina market that is less volatile than commodities or housing. Children's books are published by almost all of the major publishing groups, butthere are also many small, independent children's book publishers, some of whichspecialise in particular genres or books aimed at children with particularneeds. Most of these books are widely available, despite a trend among theleading book retailers to reduce their ranges of children's titles - especiallypicture books - and concentrate on the best sellers. The Internet is an increasingly important sales channel for children's books,even though children cannot buy books for themselves online.
(In fact, mostchildren's books are bought by adults.) Most booksellers and many publisherssell directly to the public through their websites. The wholesaling sector,meanwhile, has seen consolidation: the family firm of Bertrams has merged withTHE, while the rival family firm Gardners has acquired the library and schoolbook distributors Askews and Holt Jackson to extend its reach. The picture-book sector has declined in both volume and value since themid-2000s. With the new emphasis on development in children's early years, weforecast a return to growth in this sector - but not yet. Although the industryis relatively optimistic about its ability to withstand the credit crunch, we donot expect any growth in this sector until 2009. Overall, the UK market for children's books is forecast to show a marginalincrease in value, and a marginal decline in volume, in 2008. A steadierexpansion in value is expected from 2009, and a steady increase in volume from2010 onwards.
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