Category: Ebooks
Bookstat misses 18% of Hachette UK top ten ebook sales
The UK trade journal the Bookseller has once again shared the top ten ebook sales number as...
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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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Mexico book market plummets 88.2% amid pandemic. Mexican publishing reinvents itself digitally to save the day
The latest data on the Mexican book market, as reported to El Economista by Nielsen Bookscan...
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Lockdown exposes the deep flaws in Data Guy’s Bookstat guessing game
From the very first Author Earnings Report the efforts of the web-scraping expert known as Data...
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Simon & Schuster Q1 revenue up 4%, driven by 16% growth in ebook and audiobook sales. Audio defies the no-commuters-equals-no-audiobook-sales narrative
As part of ViacomCBS the Simon & Schuster management, like HarperCollins, understands the...
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Quote Unquote: Reasons to be wide and digital
Publishers who have broad publishing programmes and sell across a range of retailers, including...
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Mapping the New Normal – unlimited streaming services from Alamo, Yippee and Mills & Boon as Faber CEO admits “lockdown lessons will outlast the pandemic”
Unlimited video streaming services are proliferating like wildfire, and unlimited ebook and...
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UK govt. acts on March TNPS call to cut VAT on ebooks to fight the coronavirus
With impeccably bad timing the UK government in April announced it would cut VAT on ebooks from...
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“Just. &%$*@. Stop.” Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn tells the coronavirus book scammers where they can stuff their “snake-oil quackery, conspiracy theories, and raw disinformation”
When it comes to book scams, digital makes it easy for pretty much anyone anywhere to get in on...
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Publishers Weekly launches #BooksAreEssential social media campaign to support the industry. But essential to who?
In times of crisis we often have to make difficult choices, redefine our priorities, and make...
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Data Guy’s Bookstat under-guesses sales on 3 Hachette ebooks by 14,000, throwing Bookstat numbers for non-Hachette titles into doubt
The problem with claiming upwards of 95% accuracy when guessing ebook sales based on relative...
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As the new normal for publishing evolves, Penguin Random House India opens an exclusive ebook store – on Amazon. A smart move in a country of 560 million internet users
When India’s Prime Minister extended one of the world’s harshest national lockdowns to May 3, as...
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