Big Bad Wolf tops 3 million online buyers. Second Thailand sale prepped. A watershed moment for global publishing redux
Big Bad Wolf hesitantly ventured online in Indonesia on Tokopedia as the pandemic struck. It then...
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Category: Academic and specialist publishing
OverDrive hits 366 million digital downloads in first 11 months of 2020, already exceeding the 2019 total by 40 million. So much for screen fatigue and Netflix killing off digital books
As we all know ebooks are yesterday’s format thanks to screen fatigue and Netflix, and audiobook...
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Institutional customers have “moved wholeheartedly to digital formats” – Ass. University Presses survey
“A huge opportunity (and) a great time for the industry to pull together and think outside of the...
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Qatar National Library joins Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services
“The treasures contained in our Library, its content, its modernity, its advanced...
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US ebook market unit sales rose 31% in April – Nielsen. Meanwhile the PA’s Lotinga plays down 2019 digital gains in UK’s “best year ever”
Digital formats (ebooks, e-journals, online subscriptions, learning management systems, etc)...
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Mapping the New Normal: UK loses 5 Blackwell’s university bookstores to coronavirus
With 28 stores across the country, Blackwell’s competes with UK bookstore chains Waterstones...
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Quote Unquote: “Our strategy of expanding and leveraging our digital rights and products means increased demand for audio and ebooks. A perfect moment for ebooks.” – Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Publishing defies Covid-19 expectations, with revenue down just 3%, thanks to robust...
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Bangladesh handed out 353 million school text books on New Year’s Day. 2.2 billion books in total since the programme began
Bangladesh has 42 million children in its primary and secondary school, and every year, on the...
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The TNPS Week In Review: December 8-14
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Cactus Communications’ university best practices magazine Blank:a is now available online as well as in print
With the state aim of “disseminating university best practices globally”, the print magazine...
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PRK UK's new centralised rights; B&N Education's poor quarter; Hachette UK's Changing the Story Day; PRH UK's Xmas Gift site
A quick glance at some top publishing stories from the industry trade journals. PRH UK unveils...
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Pearson to phase out print textbooks in US as digital gathers momentum
As one of the world’s largest education publishing companies, the news that Pearson is to phase...
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