Book Sales Might Be Rising, But Book Jobs? Not So Much

Here’s a sobering statistic from the Progressive Policy Institute:

“Since 2001, employment in the publishing side of America’s book industry has fallen from 88,000 to 81,000, while book-printing employment has dropped from 38,000 to 30,000.”

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