Bonnier Books UK and Blackstone Publishing (US) add audiobook catalogues to Spotify
All indications so far are that Spotify’s audiobook offering is expanding the market in the...
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Author: Mark Williams
No, the “real” Middle Grade reading crisis has nothing to do with kids having or not having phones
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?
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Building a publishing start-up? Read this, says Sydney Liu
“I’ve launched, failed and relaunched; here are the crucial lessons I’ve learned.”
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Hypocrisy and moral cowardice: UK’s Society of Authors thinks Gaza atrocities are not its problem
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.
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Audiobooks: subscription, digital libraries or à la carte? There’s room for all!
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.
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