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“Book Publishers Face a Year of Transition” – Kristen McLean
One way publishers can adapt to an evolving market is to be aware of the changes in consumer...
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TNPS values the US trade ebook market at $3.65 billion in 2022, regardless of what the AAP and Nielsen will tell us
That still leaves audio a long, long way to go – another $1.65 billion since you ask – to...
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Bangladesh – can the book fair beat $10 million in book sales next month?
Come March, as the Boi Mela book-buying bonanza fades away, it will be time for Bangladesh...
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Penguin Classics to publish three new Marvel collections this September
It’s a long-overdue vindication for my childhood battles with English teachers who...
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Uncounted by the APA, Nielsen et al, Kindle Unlimited paid out over a half billion dollars in 2022 – mostly to self-publishers
That’s up $72 million on 2021, at a time when the preferred mainstream publishing narrative is...
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“Arabs only read for a few minutes a year” (Not my words!)
Last year the UAE’s Sharjah International Book Fair saw well over 2 million visitors while...
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Storytel returns to New Normal (post-Tellander, not post-Covid) predictability
I’m emboldened to optimism by Larcher and Team’s SVOD background, which by definition...
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US print sales fell 6.5% in 2022 as “interest in reading” fell
Curious how, when it’s declining ebook numbers that are reported, this rationale is set...
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Beware The Future – It’s Closer Than You Think
“AI can never replace human creativity!” So why are you running about like a headless chicken...
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OverDrive clocked over 500 million downloads in 2022, and it may actually have been 587 million
The important message here is a simple one: consumer interest in ebooks is not declining, no...
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Do authors need publishers? Shatzkin concludes not
Shatzkin: “The biggest change of all is that publishers aren’t “necessary” for an author to have a...
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No, Storytel’s latest subscription shuffle does not mean the end of the unlimited model. At least, not yet
What the opponents of unlimited obtusely refuse to acknowledge, and what the proponents of...
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The Casablanca Int. Book Fair will again be in Rabat. This time in June
The first and so far only Rabat incarnation in 2022, it transpires, was heavily financed by the...
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About that nonsensical GBP 7,000 ($8,450) median earnings for UK authors…
When I put pen to paper to write a book there is no guarantee I will earn a single penny from it....
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Will the new Chennai International Book Fair provide the digital boost India’s publishing industry needs?
Actions speak larger than words of course, so we must wait a few weeks to find out just what the...
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Vietnam – Hồ Chí Minh City to get its second “book street” in April
The book street will feature a “Hồ Chí Minh Culture Space” with 20 book stalls and...
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Arab Publishing 2022 – An overview
Digital can democratise and empower Arab publishing across the entire MENA region in a way the...
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India – 1.4 billion people. 833 million online. The Assam Book Fair is underway as western publishing sleeps
India is a hugely exciting market most western publishers seem not to enthuse over. Their loss....
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About That Englishman In New York Who Turned The Page On Barnes & Noble…
And somehow Daunt magically beat the ogre at its own game and apparently, they will all live...
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UK booksellers face a “brutal” 2023, warns the Booksellers Association. Damns Amazon as Watertones demand 85% discount on frontlist titles
Level playing field? That’s like demanding a level playing field for buses, trains and...
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