Markus Dohle tells us consumers prefer print to ebooks. So why is he so sh*t-scared of subscription?
Dohle told the Court that if subscription got its wicked way there would be no bricks & mortar...
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Indian publishing after the pandemic – “print books have comfortably adapted to digital”
India is only at 54% internet penetration, so the reluctance of some publishers to embrace digital...
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French-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani will chair 2023 International Booker Prize
At a time when many literary awards seems to be endangered species, it’s great to see the...
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Pakistan – No-one is reading! We must publish more books nobody wants to read!
Encourage the public to read for pleasure and they will surely find pleasure in non-fiction as...
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If only western countries had this kind of govt. support to fight book piracy!
Many publishing professionals in the “civilised west” regard far-flung parts of the...
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Hollywood’s “mad rush” into Ad-Supported Video Subscription
Ad-supported streaming may – and indeed is very likely – to be the middle way for the...
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26% of Gen Z say they listen to podcasts every week. Top 5 podcast topics includes books
Many publishers still don’t get podcasts. Time to wake up and smell the coffee. Gen Z top 5...
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Markus Dohle tells us consumers prefer print to ebooks. So why is he so sh*t-scared of subscription?
Dohle told the Court that if subscription got its wicked way there would be no bricks & mortar...
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Storytel – the end of an era
Storytel’s half year report, essentially a wrap of the Q2 numbers we already knew, pretty...
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Readers prefer “real” books rather than ebooks or audiobooks – writes a renewable pulp and paper manufacturer
Who would want to pay $20 – or even just $10 – for a digital file they will never own...
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The televised NFT: What do they mean for the studio and production space?
Not sure I share the author’s optimism, but this is a fascinating look at how NFTs might...
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Pearson’s plan to make its textbooks NFTs exposes the elephant in the publishers’ room
Thus far the publishing industry has kept NFTs at a discreet distance, as it does with anything...
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Costa Rica International Book Fair returns in person this month after two years virtual
BOOK FAIR NEWS IN BRIEF August 26 through September 4 will see FIL Costa Rica return to in-person...
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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective
Just maybe the IPA could bring the digital distributors to their senses, and maybe too knock sense...
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Taiwan Comic Expo pulls 90,000 visitors on first day after 2 year in-person hiatus
2020 and 2021 saw virtual events quickly knocked together to keep a semblance of normality going,...
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Apple Hits 860 Million Paid Subscriptions Across Its Services
SUBSCRIPTION NEWS IN BRIEF Apple now has over 860 million paid subscriptions across all of its...
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Spotify paid $123 million for Findaway
IN BRIEF Since the announcement of intent last November Spotify and Findaway have kept quite about...
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OverDrive’s Sora, the reading app for schools, clocks 100 million downloads – 87% ebooks – that the APA won’t have counted
“It’s difficult to quantify what 100 million books looks like — and doubly difficult when the...
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The video subscription market offers lessons, but few warnings, for the future of subscription in the book market. Here’s why
Be prepared for a lot of churn in late August as subscribers weigh up their Netflix, Disney,...
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300 million Bengali speakers finally get an ebook store, but no it’s not a world first
Amazon supports five Indian languages for its Amazon India operation (ebooks only, not print or...
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Big Bad Wolf Indonesia tour continues
Indonesia may not seem the most likely place to be trying to sell remaindered English-language...
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