Ireland’s postal service offers lifeline to print books during the pandemic with a promo delivery deal to ship up to 10 kg (22 lb) of books
Set aside for a moment the moral dilemma of whether it is okay to shut bookstores to keep people...
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Author: Mark Williams
Publishers Weekly launches #BooksAreEssential social media campaign to support the industry. But essential to who?
In times of crisis we often have to make difficult choices, redefine our priorities, and make...
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Iran begins to tentatively re-open its bookstores, but will consumers be ready to visit?
China, Italy, Denmark, Germany and now Iran are among the countries tentatively allowing...
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Peru’s Lima Int. Book Fair the latest coronavirus casualty to head online as global publishing discovers there’s more to digital than ebooks
The announcement this past week that the Lima International Book Fair would not be going ahead in...
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Data Guy’s Bookstat under-guesses sales on 3 Hachette ebooks by 14,000, throwing Bookstat numbers for non-Hachette titles into doubt
The problem with claiming upwards of 95% accuracy when guessing ebook sales based on relative...
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