Industry Statistics Sampler
NAICS 511
Publishing industries (except Internet)

Definition: NAICS 511   Publishing industries (except Internet)

Industries in the Publishing Industries (except Internet) subsector group establishments engaged in the publishing of newspapers, magazines, other periodicals, and books, as well as directory and mailing list and software publishing. In general, these establishments, which are known as publishers, issue copies of works for which they usually possess copyright. Works may be in one or more formats including traditional print form, CD-ROM, or proprietary electronic networks. Publishers may publish works originally created by others for which they have obtained the rights and/or works that they have created in-house. Software publishing is included here because the activity, creation of a copyrighted product and bringing it to market, is equivalent to the creation process for other types of intellectual products.

In NAICS, publishing the reporting, writing, editing, and other processes that are required to create an edition of a newspaper is treated as a major economic activity in its own right, rather than as a subsidiary activity to a manufacturing activity, printing. Thus, publishing is classified in the Information sector; whereas, printing remains in the NAICS Manufacturing sector. In part, the NAICS classification reflects the fact that publishing increasingly takes place in establishments that are physically separate from the associated printing establishments. More crucially, the NAICS classification of book and newspaper publishing is intended to portray their roles in a modern economy, in which they do not resemble manufacturing activities.

Music publishers are not included in the Publishing Industries (except Internet) subsector, but are included in the Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries subsector. Reproduction of prepackaged software is treated in NAICS as a manufacturing activity; on-line distribution of software products is in the Information sector, and custom design of software to client specifications is included in the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services sector. These distinctions arise because of the different ways that software is created, reproduced, and distributed.

Historical comparability

Products Lines for Publishing industries (except Internet)

Product code	Product description	Sales of this line ($000)	Percent of industry sales (%)	Graph
30000	Industry total	242,216,36	100.00
35650	Application software publishing	46,747,671	19.30
35600	System software publishing	39,728,711	16.40
31060	Newspapers - Print - Sale of ad space: General newspapers	29,690,397	12.26
31600	Periodicals - Print - Sale of ad space: Gen interest periodicals	14,753,881	6.09
31850	Directories - Print - Sale of advertising space	13,543,655	5.59
	-Other	97,752,054	40.36

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Products, Size, and Other Data from the Economic Census -- Publishing industries (except Internet)

Link to pdf	Series number	Title	Link to AFF or Drill-down tables	Contents	Geography
	EC02-00C-BDG	Bridge Between NAICS 2002 and NAICS 1997		Relationships between NAICS 1997 and NAICS 2002 for those industries redefined	US
	EC02-00C-COMP	Comparative Statistics		2002 and 1997 data side by side on a comparable NAICS 1997 basis	US, states
	EC02-51SL-LS	Product Lines		Product Lines by Kind of Business	US, states
	EC02-51SS-SZ	Establishment and Firm Size		Receipts Size of Establishments	US
	Employment Size of Establishments	US
	Single Unit & Multiunit Firms	US
	Receipts Size of Firms	US
	Employment Size of Firms	US
	Concentration by Largest Firms	US
	Legal Form of Organization	US
	EC02-51SX-SB	Miscellaneous Subjects		Exported Services by Selected Kind of Business	US, states
	End of Year Inventories by Category: 2002 & 2001	US
	Inventories with LIFO Valuation: 2002 & 2001	US
	BE02-00I-1	Business Expenses		Sales & Operating Expenses by Kind of Business (1997 NAICS Basis)	US
	Relative Standard Errors for Sales & Operating Expenses by Kind of Business (1997 NAICS Basis)	US
	EC02-51A	Geographic Area Series		Summary Statistics	US, states, counties, metros
	SB02-00A	Survey of Business Owners		Business Ownership by Gender, Hispanic or Latino Origin, and Race	US

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