Résumé:
This article aims to provide a brief overview of the current situation of the publishing industry in Algeria and some aspects of these changes. By adopting the descriptive approach (documents, statistics, etc.), the study showed that this industry; which occupies an axial place among the other cultural industries and plays an important role in the creation of the cultural landscape; is increasingly dominated by the private sector, and that all related activities are mainly concentrated in the big cities of the north, and very particularly in Algiers which has 38% of printing houses and 65% of publishing houses active approx!. The study also concluded that the very high costs of producing local books, competition from imported books, deficiencies in distribution networks, as well as inadequate legislation relating to books, are the major difficulties plaguing the publishing industry. These difficulties increase the fragility of the book market, still subject to traditional policies, which threatens reading with extinction, especially in the face of the advent and the mad popularization of new media. Finally, the study offers a set of appropriate recommendations to improve the performance and efficiency of this industry.
