Are you using the AP Stylebook for your classes?


Let us help you with your choice of the new spiral-bound AP Stylebook, 57th Edition and AP Stylebook Online. You can request either or both via our desk copy request form.


The AP Stylebook Online is a searchable, mobile-friendly version of the AP Stylebook with online-only bonus features, including Ask the Editor where you can ask your own questions and search thousands in the archives and Topical Guides with helpful tips on news events ranging from the elections to the Olympics. As AP updates its style throughout the year, users can get email updates and easily review the new entries and recent changes section online.

We now sell AP Stylebook Online via the digital textbook platforms RedShelf and VitalSource. That offers you and your students AP style guidance that's updated throughout the year, with no need to carry a big book back and forth to campus.

If your campus uses RedShelf, our two product pages are:

If you use VitalSource, look for these product pages:


Of course you can still subscribe to Stylebook Online directly from us, as well.


The spiral-bound Associated Press Stylebook, 57th Edition, includes new chapters on artificial intelligence and criminal justice, plus a detailed checklist for self-editing. Additional highlights include:

  • A revised section on using social media for reporting, and restructured guidance on technology terms
  • Expanded guidance on climate change and the climate crisis
  • New philanthropy terms including nonprofit vs. not-for-profit, GivingTuesday, LYBUNT and crowdfunding


We now publish a new AP Stylebook every other year, instead of annually. If you are using the burgundy AP Stylebook, 56th Edition, this updated version replaces that Stylebook we released in 2022.



Retail is $34.95, your bookstore pays our wholesale price of $27.95. ISBN is 978-0-917360-71-8. We have additional information for college bookstores on our help center.

You can only find the spiral-bound AP Stylebook on our website,
and we have the exclusive rights to serve college bookstores.
Our self-published AP Stylebook looks and feels different from the perfect-bound edition Basic Books sells via retail bookstores. 


The Stylebook’s chapters are:

  • Punctuation
  • Inclusive Storytelling
  • Health and Science
  • Polls and Surveys
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Digital Journalism
  • Social Media Reporting
  • Data Journalism
  • Religion
  • Sports
  • AP Statement of News Values and Principles
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Criminal Justice


Additionally, we now offer the AP Stylebook Workshop. Your students can learn AP style directly from the editors who write the rules. 

The online classroom includes videos and written lessons on 10 essential AP Stylebook rules about mechanics including commas, hyphens, capitalization and numerals, plus interview videos with the Stylebook editors discussing essential concepts including making judgement calls and creating your own house style rules. Five webinar recordings cover a range of topics from mechanics to strategic issues in storytelling.

We do not offer a teacher's edition or suggested syllabuses (AP style is syllabuses, not syllabi). We do offer AP Stylebook Study Guides to test your knowledge of AP style and usage. These quizzes are designed primarily for individual use. They can provide helpful feedback to students as they familiarize themselves with AP style rules, though. You can read more about Study Guides and how your students might use them here.

We would love to hear how you use AP Stylebook in your classroom. Traditionally the Stylebook was a journalism text, but now we see it in broadcast, public relations and integrated marketing programs. Drop us a note to let us know how you teach AP style and what would help you and your students. 

We invite you and your students to engage with the Stylebook: Follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, sign up for our monthly e-newsletter and make suggestions for additions or changes to AP style.