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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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,
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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?
Read More
Ebooks remains an exciting opportunity for global publishers, if the “vicious circle of low supply and low demand” can be broken.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
while there is no suggestion AI is being used to replace jobs at Books, it is safe to say Apple is pivoting its attention towards AI, and Books, always a sideshow, has just become even more a sideshow than before.
Read More
This year the July payout sets a new record (probably only until next month) with $55.5 million being shared.
Read More
Given HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp is investing heavily in AI, we can therefore reasonably assume HarperCollins is going down that same route, but quietly.
Read More