SALES
604,407 items were sold through the Welsh Books Council's Distribution Centre in 2010/11, amounting to £4.35 million (gross).
Titles were distributed to over 800 outlets on behalf of 350 publishers.
EDITORIAL SERVICES
The Editorial Department dealt with 177 manuscripts during the year on behalf of 15 publishers.
DESIGN SERVICES
The Department provided design services for 112 titles from 9 publishers.
SERVICES TO SCHOOLS
Book Clubs (Y Clwb Llyfrau)
18,421 books, worth a total of £62,938, were sold to 10,302 buyers through Y Clwb Llyfrau (Book clubs) for primary and secondary school children.
Schools Project
The Council's four Schools Officers visited a total of 847 schools and collected orders amounting to £400,192.
OUTREACH SCHEME
Booksellers arranged 392 sales opportunities under the Outreach Scheme and books worth £145,113 were sold.
DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLISHING GRANTS
The Council distributed a total of £749,990 towards the publishing of English-language books and magazines; 86 books were supported together with three magazines and one literary supplement from the Literature Grant. In addition, 12 books which had received author advance grants were published, and 6 marketing grants were distributed.
A total of £1,850,186 was distributed towards the publishing of Welsh-language books and magazines and other material, such as games, CD-ROMs and other material such as the online news serivce (referred to below). 227 books were supported, and 17 magazines. Payments to authors and illustrators amounted to £360,910, and a sum of £43,482 was distributed to booksellers.
An extension to the additional funding of £200,000 from the Welsh Assembly Government to establish an online news service, and to strengthen the monthly magazine, Golwg was announced for a further three years (2011/12–2013/14). The new service, Golwg 360, was launched in May 2009.