Category: Ebooks
Kindle Unlimited Has Paid Out $2.58 Billion To Self-Publishers Since 2020. Meanwhile We Panic About Four Million New Books
KU has paid $2.58 billion to self-publishers since 2020 — a 107% increase. Now four million books in 2025 has the industry panicking. TNPS runs the numbers and asks who, exactly, the problem is for.
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OverDrive Libraries Clock 820 Million Downloads. 379 Million Were Ebooks. Kindle Unlimited Paid Out $689.9 Million To Self-Publishers
OverDrive 379 m ebook loans + $700 m KU payouts expose the “ebook plateau” myth—self-publishers quietly dominate digital reading.
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eKitabu Launches Children’s Imprint: Redefining African Publishing from Kenya to the World
Kenya’s eKitabu launches Maua Books, a new children’s imprint. After award-winning Mvua Press & inclusive KSL audio/theatre innovations, they redefine African publishing.
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Legacy TV Consumption Falls. Streaming TV Rises. Lessons For Book Publishers From Streaming’s Success
Put simply, publishing needs to move with the times. And of course it will, eventually. The history of publishing is the history of active resistance, passive acceptance and eventual embrace.
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366 Million Ebooks Among OverDrive’s 739 Million Digital Download Tsunami, Redux
A few days ago TNPS reported on the latest numbers from OverDrive, as record were broken yet again, with 366 million ebook downloads blowing a gaping hole in the preferred industry narrative that ebooks are out of fashion.
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Egypt gets its own digital reading app at the Cairo International Book Fair
The app’s second version will include audiobooks, and a similar app for the Egyptian Music Library is in development. Artificial Intelligence will be used to translate more books,
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366 million ebooks among OverDrive’s 739 digital download tsunami as Kindle Unlimited pays out $645 million to self-publishers in 2024
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes and the January TNPS round up of the real numbers for ebooks that the industry collectively prefers to keep in the shade.
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Greece – the potential of ebooks is finally being discussed
One of the common faux narratives in the publishing world is that because ebooks don’t sell in huge numbers in some countries, ebooks are therefore unpopular.
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AAP Reported Ebook Sales fell 12.6%. Unreported Ebook Sales Rose A Minimum of 11.2%
Total sales when all are included will be higher still. So Why.T.F. was Seth Godin ranting about declining book sales and blaming AI?
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Ebooks remains an exciting opportunity for global publishers, if the “vicious circle of low supply and low demand” can be broken.
Ebooks remains an exciting opportunity for global publishers, if the “vicious circle of low supply and low demand” can be broken.
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Bookouture Clocks ‘Significant Double-Digit Sales Growth’ Two Years Running
Bookouture’s commitment to growth and adapting to market trends, vindicates my early impressions of Bookouture back before the 2017 buyout by Hachette UK, as a publisher to watch.
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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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