Home | Business News | Browse by Publication | N | Notes

Prices of music monographs and scores as reflected in Notes, 1999-2004.

Article Excerpt
This column follows the format as laid out in previous years. All numbers presented here are based on data drawn from this journal's "Books Recently Published" and "Music Received" columns. Books and scores reviewed in Notes and imprints before 2002 are not included in the 2004 figures. No distinction is made between paperback and hardback editions, or between volumes issued with accompanying materials (CDs, CD-ROMs, etc.) and those without. If prices are available for both paperback and hardback editions, the price of the hardback edition has been used.

As before, price trends for books are given as a whole and are also separated by language: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. (Please note that the alphabetical arrangement of languages differs from previous years.) Out of 1,880 books from the "Books Recently Published" column in 2004, 1,646 books, or 88 percent (1) met the criterion of having an imprint date of 2002 or later. Of that number, prices could be found for 1,555 books, or 94 percent. These numbers by language are as follows:

Number Books With Percent Number Percent From Notes 2002- 2002- With Prices With Prices Language Columns Imprint Imprint Available Available English 1,017 937 92 884 94 French 171 147 86 142 97 German 331 274 83 273 100 Italian 177 139 79 136 98 Spanish 184 149 81...