Statistical presentation

Data description

The statistics shed light on book production in Denmark and show the development in respectively. the number of published books and book titles. A book here is a commercial publication, written material published by public institutions or a scientific report. The number of books published is the same as the number of unique publications, ie. releases that stand out by title, format, edition or language. Thus, the first and second editions of a given title in the same format in the same language will count as two published books.

All information is taken from the Danish Book List, which is part of the National Bibliography (umbrella term for the lists of documents published or published in a country). Post-registrations occur until five years after the counting year. The figures for the past six years are therefore preliminary and audited annually.

Classification system

To compile the statistics, data from the Danish Book List, which follows the Danish variant of the MARC standard, called danMARC2, is used.

Books: The book production statistics operate with the following types of materials: • Physical book is used for publications with text printed on paper. • E-book, online used for publications with text available over the Internet. The agreement on registration of online e-books was signed between the Danish Agency for Culture and the Danish Library Center in the summer of 2011. This makes 2012 the first complete registration year. The registrations in the years 2007-2011 are thus not complete, but consist only of the titles that have been registered by the Danish Library Center since the agreement was signed. • E-book, CD-ROM is used for texts published on CD-ROM (and earlier CDs and floppy disks). Note that there is no record of whether a CD-ROM is commercial. Therefore, the term is not found in the table BOG01. • Multimedia, online, is used for publications on the web that are composed of several types, such as both text and images. • Multimedia, CD-ROMs are used for publications on CD-ROMs (and earlier CDs and floppy disks) composed of several types, such as both text and images.

Publications: The book production statistics operate with the following types of publications: • Commercial publications are used books offered for resale in retail.

Book type: In the book production statistics, the following types of books are operated: • Children's book includes the publications which, by the Danish Library Center's cataloging, have been given a code (in field 008, sub-field o) for children. • School book includes the publications which, by the Danish Library Center's cataloging, have been given a code (in field 008, subfield o) for school use. This code includes materials for school students at all levels through high school. The code corresponds to the UNESCO category "materials for pupils receiving first and second level education".

Sector coverage

Culture.

Statistical concepts and definitions

Type of book: Children's Book' includes the releases by DBC's cataloging has been given a code (in field 008, subfield o) for intended for children.

School books includes releases by DBC's cataloging has been given a code (in field 008, subfield o) for intended for school use. This code includes materials for students at all levels to the upper secondary level. The code corresponds to the UNESCO category "materials for students who receive instruction on the 1st and 2nd level".

Books: Physical book, publication of text printed on paper.

E-book online: publication of text available via the Internet. The agreement for registration of online e-books were signed between Danish Agency for Culture and DBC in the summer of 2011. Entries in the years 2007-2011 are thus not complete, but consists only of the titles that have been recorded by DBC, since the inception of the agreement.

E-book CD-ROM: texts published on CD-ROM (and earlier CDs and disks). Note that there is no registration of whether a CD-ROM is commercial. Therefore, the concept is not to be found in the table BOG01.

Multimedia, online: publications on the net that is composed of several types, such as text and images. Within this category the major part are games.

Multimedia, CD-ROM: publications on CD-ROM (and earlier CDs and floppy disks) that is composed of several types, such as text and images. Within this category are placed on games.

Editions: Circulation

'Edition' covers a reissue of a particular version without or with minor and insignificant changes.

'Annual publications' denotes periodicals, usually published once a year or less and is not a monograph series. A journal counted as annual publication, when the Danish serial list is registered as such.

'Foreign Commission' represents foreign books in commission in Denmark. However, these are only registered if the commission relationship is directly shown by the material.

Releases: 'Commercial releases' is used for physical books when a publication is counted as released commercially. The provision is based on the publisher information that their releases are for commercial sale. Each publisher can additionally for a single release state whether it is for commercial sale or not.

'Commercial releases' covering material available on the Internet, is a little more complicated to define compared to physical books. Included are publications in which the registration is apparent that the publication is for sale. Such notes are mandatory for the registration of net publications.

Statistical unit

Number of publications and number of book titles.

Statistical population

The population are books registered in the Danish national bibliography, which includes all books and periodicals in print or electronic form published in Denmark. Excepted from the National bibliography are pamphlets of less than 17 pages, books published for a narrow circle, advertisements and the like

Reference area

Denmark.

Time coverage

There are data dating back to 2007. However, data for e-books is not complete until 2012.

Base period

Not relevant for these statistics.

Unit of measure

Number of publications and number of book titles.

Reference period

Calendar year.

Frequency of dissemination

Annual.

Legal acts and other agreements

There is no EU-regulation for statistics on books.

Cost and burden

There is no reporting burden on respondents to this statistic.

Comment

Additional information can be obtained from Statistics Denmark.