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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective

Aug 1, 2022 | Africa, Global Publishing, IPA, Sharjah

Just maybe the IPA could bring the digital distributors to their senses, and maybe too knock sense...

The Constipated Audiobook Market. About those scam publishing industry reports masquerading as research that cost $3,000

Jul 17, 2022 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing
The video subscription market offers lessons, but few warnings, for the future of subscription in the book market. Here’s why

Jul 22, 2022 | Amazon, Digital subscription
Pearson’s plan to make its textbooks NFTs exposes the elephant in the publishers’ room

Aug 3, 2022 | The Future of Publishing
Apple Hits 860 Million Paid Subscriptions Across Its Services

Jul 30, 2022 | Digital subscription

Storytel – the end of an era

by Mark Williams | Aug 7, 2022 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing | 0 |

Storytel’s half year report, essentially a wrap of the Q2 numbers we already knew, pretty...

Readers prefer “real” books rather than ebooks or audiobooks – writes a renewable pulp and paper manufacturer

by Mark Williams | Aug 7, 2022 | Ebooks, Print | 0 |

Who would want to pay $20 – or even just $10 – for a digital file they will never own...

The televised NFT: What do they mean for the studio and production space?

by Mark Williams | Aug 4, 2022 | The Future of Publishing | 0 |

Not sure I share the author’s optimism, but this is a fascinating look at how NFTs might...

Pearson’s plan to make its textbooks NFTs exposes the elephant in the publishers’ room

by Mark Williams | Aug 3, 2022 | The Future of Publishing | 0 |

Thus far the publishing industry has kept NFTs at a discreet distance, as it does with anything...

Costa Rica International Book Fair returns in person this month after two years virtual

by Mark Williams | Aug 2, 2022 | Costa Rica, Ibero-America | 0 |

BOOK FAIR NEWS IN BRIEF August 26 through September 4 will see FIL Costa Rica return to in-person...

Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective

by Mark Williams | Aug 1, 2022 | Africa, Global Publishing, IPA, Sharjah | 1 |

Just maybe the IPA could bring the digital distributors to their senses, and maybe too knock sense...

Taiwan Comic Expo pulls 90,000 visitors on first day after 2 year in-person hiatus

by Mark Williams | Jul 31, 2022 | Book Fairs, Comics, Taiwan | 0 |

2020 and 2021 saw virtual events quickly knocked together to keep a semblance of normality going,...

Apple Hits 860 Million Paid Subscriptions Across Its Services

by Mark Williams | Jul 30, 2022 | Digital subscription | 0 |

SUBSCRIPTION NEWS IN BRIEF Apple now has over 860 million paid subscriptions across all of its...

Spotify paid $123 million for Findaway

by Mark Williams | Jul 30, 2022 | Audiobooks, Digital subscription | 0 |

IN BRIEF Since the announcement of intent last November Spotify and Findaway have kept quite about...

OverDrive’s Sora, the reading app for schools, clocks 100 million downloads – 87% ebooks – that the APA won’t have counted

by Mark Williams | Jul 26, 2022 | Digital Libraries, Ebooks | 0 |

“It’s difficult to quantify what 100 million books looks like — and doubly difficult when the...

The video subscription market offers lessons, but few warnings, for the future of subscription in the book market. Here’s why

by Mark Williams | Jul 22, 2022 | Amazon, Digital subscription | 0 |

Be prepared for a lot of churn in late August as subscribers weigh up their Netflix, Disney,...

APA’s April StatShot: $84 million ebook revenue. In the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $41 million to indie authors and small presses

by Mark Williams | Jul 11, 2022 | Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Ebooks | 0 |

Even without knowing the KU and a la carte APub numbers (which we can see from ebook chart...

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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective

The Constipated Audiobook Market. About those scam publishing industry reports masquerading as research that cost $3,000

The video subscription market offers lessons, but few warnings, for the future of subscription in the book market. Here’s why

Pearson’s plan to make its textbooks NFTs exposes the elephant in the publishers’ room

Apple Hits 860 Million Paid Subscriptions Across Its Services

Storytel – the end of an era

Readers prefer “real” books rather than ebooks or audiobooks – writes a renewable pulp and paper manufacturer

The televised NFT: What do they mean for the studio and production space?

Pearson’s plan to make its textbooks NFTs exposes the elephant in the publishers’ room

Costa Rica International Book Fair returns in person this month after two years virtual

Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective

Taiwan Comic Expo pulls 90,000 visitors on first day after 2 year in-person hiatus

Apple Hits 860 Million Paid Subscriptions Across Its Services

Spotify paid $123 million for Findaway

OverDrive’s Sora, the reading app for schools, clocks 100 million downloads – 87% ebooks – that the APA won’t have counted

The video subscription market offers lessons, but few warnings, for the future of subscription in the book market. Here’s why

300 million Bengali speakers finally get an ebook store, but no it’s not a world first

Big Bad Wolf Indonesia tour continues

The Constipated Audiobook Market. About those scam publishing industry reports masquerading as research that cost $3,000

Meet the Lebanese expat who sold books to young UAE royals. And a personal memoir involving suitcases of books

July US print book sales down 8.8% in first week. Fortunately Nikki Haley maths do not apply

APA’s April StatShot: $84 million ebook revenue. In the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $41 million to indie authors and small presses

KKR’s barely noticed RBMedia-BookBeat deal has broader meaning for the global audiobook markets

Post-Tellander, Storytel’s results remain predictable thanks to safe forecasts and zero ambition

Registrations open for 33rd International Publishers Congress

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