Superman comic sells for record $3.4 million
But the record will probably fall next week. And it’s not “the” record. ICV2...
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Category: Academic and specialist publishing
Edinburgh University Press – 68% profit in 2021 driven by “tremendous growth” (49%) in ebook sales
We were well-placed to respond to (lockdown), making all our books simultaneously available in...
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2030 audio market projection hits $50 billion as Podimo brings in $78 million in fresh funding
The latest forecast, from Denmark-based podcasting platform Podimo, projects a 2030 audio market...
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Spotify’s paid podcast subscription service expands to 34 markets. Will authors and publishers rise to the opportunity?
But for podcasts, where traditionally there has been no royalties, just promotional payback, it’s...
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Pearson+ subscription app “brings e-books in line with how students buy and experience the rest of their content”. Most other publishers look away
But as the subscription screws tighten, so publishers will have to rethink their resistance to...
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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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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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