What do we do?

Main tasks and activities

 

  • Maintain a website with links to European reading, library and publishing statistics
  • Generate and maintain an archive of European reading, library and publishing data
  • Generate and maintain an online bibliography on publishing, reading and bookselling 
  • Generate and maintain database on book and reading policies freely available online
  • Generate and maintain an online database on bestsellers in Europe and USA since 2007
  • Collect and maintain online data on translations and cultural diversity 
  • Collect and maintain data on the development of long form reading
  • Prepare an annual benchmarking report on reading and book publishing in Europe
  • Prepare an annual benchmarking report on translations and language representations in Europe/regionally
  • Organize an annual conference on books, reading and publishing
  • Prepare an annual ‘State of European Reading Health’ benchmarking report
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