Category: Amazon
A decade of unlimited ebook subscription. $3.5 billion paid to self-publishers
Markus, that deadline is almost up. If you wish, I can get the kids at school to make you a The End Is Nigh sandwich board so you can walk the streets of Manhattan outside PRH like Bruce Willis in Die Hard Whatever-Number-It-Was, and remind everyone just how dumb you were.
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Amazon to Consolidate Amazon Studios and MGM Teams Following Layoffs, as 5% of Audible staff are fired
On the bright side, there is no indication that AI is to blame, so the rest of the infotainment industry need lose no sleep conjuring up righteous indignation over the news.
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Amazon Q3 results are out. Nothing about publishing. But 33 mentions of AI that the industry needs to wake up to
As we clearly see in the Q3 report, Amazon understands and is going all out to exploit AI’s...
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Publishers rejoice as FTC grapples with the Frankenstein’s monster the publishing industry created
When it comes to playing the victim card and putting on raucous demonstrations of self-righteous...
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Amazon pays out almost $50 million to self-pub authors using Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service as August US print market slows
It will be interesting to see what, if any, changes the new PRH CEO Nihar Malaviya will make to...
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Uncounted by Circana Bookscan or the AAP, ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out $278.2 million in royalties in H1 2023 (up 10.7%), mostly to self-publishers
Until the industry acknowledged these uncounted additional revenue and unit numbers, the picture...
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U.S. Publishers hit by “suspect” Amazon sustainability goals in Europe
Sales numbers on books that had previously been imported to Europe via Amazon have fallen by as...
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Storytel Norway stands accused of favouring own content as Amazon rakes in cash from the books and music of its Prime Video success
Whosoever owns the platform owns the algorithms and can pretty much dictate what succeeds by...
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5,000 words, but the Amazon CEO letter to shareholders offers little promise for the publishing industry
One cannot help but feel no news is bad news for an industry which has for so long allowed itself...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up # 7
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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Ten years and $2 billion later… Publishers should be concerned that Prime Air is still grounded
Right now Andy Jassy can write off the Prime Air losses as a Bezos-folly, but any commitment to...
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Fewer than half of viewers of Amazon Prime’s Lord of the Rings TV show completed the series. Publishers should be concerned.
When Amazon sneezes, publishers catch a cold. Costing around $500,000 to produce, making it the...
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