OR/M launches lively industry podcast programme
A bit like an industry version of BookTok without the video.
Jul 21, 2024 | podcasting, Publishing Brief, USA
A bit like an industry version of BookTok without the video.
by Mark Williams | Jul 23, 2024 | Ebooks, USA | 0 |
What we do know, by simply looking at the digital charts, is that APub shifts huge numbers of ebooks uncounted by the AAP, and we also know Amazon pays out serious money every month to self-publishers using its Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jul 21, 2024 | podcasting, Publishing Brief, USA | 0 |
A bit like an industry version of BookTok without the video.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jul 7, 2024 | AI, UK | 0 |
Big daddy Robert Thomson has already made clear News Corp is going to embrace AI in all its glory, so better to take the reins than be dragged along regardless.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jul 7, 2024 | Indonesia, Tanzania | 0 |
The time needed to train the bot for Kiswahili will be down to 3-6 months instead of two years....
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jul 1, 2024 | Self-Publishing, Social Media, TikTok | 0 |
A whole new market opportunity of casual readers who valued entertainment over perfection.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jun 27, 2024 | Education Publishing, UK | 0 |
Welcome to the slippery-slope world of synthetic phonics, brought to you by publishers.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jun 17, 2024 | Publishing Controversies, UK | 0 |
Fair pay for writers? I’m sure JK Rowling would be happy to settle for £25 an hour. After all, she has no commuting costs, and can pick and choose the hours she works, and judging from her output lately she probably spends all day on WhatsApp instead of slaving over that next book.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jun 16, 2024 | Book Fairs, China | 0 |
Of particular note is the African Pavilion which includes Cameroon and Nigeria, two of the publishing power-houses on the continent.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jun 13, 2024 | Arab publishing, Audiobooks, Middle East, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
Anghami, with a catalogue of 57 million songs and 200,000 podcasts, is the first to sign up.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jun 13, 2024 | Arab publishing, Book Fairs, Morocco, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
The Sharjah International Book Fair can attract over 2 million visitors in a good year, and is one of the few Arabic book fairs that gets wide international coverage, so being a SIBF Guest of Honour is a coveted prize.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jun 10, 2024 | Belgium, Europe | 0 |
“The problem with this Gfk report is that it reflects only print sales from selected consumer avenues, namely 75 (of 335) bookstores reporting cash turnover at the till. Digital sales, which by some estimates total 25% of the market, are therefore excluded.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jun 3, 2024 | AI, The Future of Publishing | 0 |
Just as AI is not to be afforded copyright protection by human law, nor is it to be afforded the assumption of innocence until proven guilty in the court of human opinion. At least, not by writers who think their job is above the law of Darwinian natural selection and survival of the fittest.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 21, 2024 | Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Ebooks | 0 |
The total sum paid out to self-publishers and small presses so far this year is $205.8 million, putting ebook unlimited subscription service Kindle Unlimited on target to pay out $620m in royalties in 2024.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 21, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, UK, USA | 0 |
All indications so far are that Spotify’s audiobook offering is expanding the market in the...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 12, 2024 | Publishing Controversies, TikTok, UK, USA | 2 |
As the industry watches Middle Grade sales and reading decline, grasping at easy excuses – such as that 70% of US nine year-olds don’t have phones – just beggars belief. How the f**k do they think Harry Potter or Enid Blyton got noticed and sold millions of books back in nineteen bow and arrow?
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 6, 2024 | Publishing Brief | 0 |
“I’ve launched, failed and relaunched; here are the crucial lessons I’ve learned.”
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 5, 2024 | Palestine, UK | 0 |
The Society of Authors believes genocide in Ukraine must be condemned, but genocide in Gaza is not part of its remit. And now the SoA has an official “mandate” to look the other way.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 2, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital Libraries, Digital subscription, Netherlands | 0 |
The Dutch experience, and the emerging picture from Spotify, shows very clearly there is room for all models, and that publishers and authors that eschew one or the other are simply missing out.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 23, 2024 | Book Fairs, UK | 0 |
Here’s a suggestion to get you started, Adam. Pop along to an industry fair as a visitor...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 23, 2024 | Africa | 0 |
In 2010 the six biggest English-speaking African countries had a combined internet population of...
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