Category: Ebooks
Readers prefer “real” books rather than ebooks or audiobooks – writes a renewable pulp and paper manufacturer
by Mark Williams | Aug 7, 2022 | Ebooks, Print | 0 |
Who would want to pay $20 – or even just $10 – for a digital file they will never own...
Read MoreOverDrive’s Sora, the reading app for schools, clocks 100 million downloads – 87% ebooks – that the APA won’t have counted
by Mark Williams | Jul 26, 2022 | Digital Libraries, Ebooks | 0 |
“It’s difficult to quantify what 100 million books looks like — and doubly difficult when the...
Read More300 million Bengali speakers finally get an ebook store, but no it’s not a world first
by Mark Williams | Jul 20, 2022 | Bangladesh, Ebooks, India | 0 |
Amazon supports five Indian languages for its Amazon India operation (ebooks only, not print or...
Read MoreAPA’s April StatShot: $84 million ebook revenue. In the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $41 million to indie authors and small presses
by Mark Williams | Jul 11, 2022 | Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Ebooks | 0 |
Even without knowing the KU and a la carte APub numbers (which we can see from ebook chart...
Read MoreKobo’s move on the Arab markets could be the game-changer Amazon walked away from. But first Kobo will need to seriously up its own game
by Mark Williams | May 31, 2022 | Ebooks, Global Publishing, Kobo, Middle East | 0 |
What we need to see next is Tamblyn at the Sharjah International Book Fair alongside Bodour al...
Read MoreAs print sales plummet 20%, industry says print fatigue is to blame
by Mark Williams | Apr 3, 2022 | Ebooks, Print, USA | 2 |
Imagine for one second that it was ebook sales that had precipitously dropped 20% in the past week...
Read MoreConfusion at Bologna over Arabic language and digital books compatibility amid a wider piracy problem
by Mark Williams | Mar 24, 2022 | Audiobooks, Ebooks, Global Publishing, Middle East | 0 |
It was one year ago this month that Amazon launched in Poland, amusingly selling Kindle devices...
Read MoreAmazon’s unlimited ebook subscription service paid out $450 million to self-published authors in 2021 as AAP reports US ebook market worth $1.1 billion. Just how big is the real ebook market no-one wants to talk about? (redux)
by Mark Williams | Jan 30, 2022 | ebook subscription services, Ebooks, Global Publishing, USA | 1 |
We need to seriously entertain the possibility that the so-called fall in ebook sales that...
Read MoreSingapore, population 5.9 million, saw 8 million downloads from OverDrive in2021, equalling Los Angeles, and beaten only by Toronto as 121 libraries exceeded 1 million digital downloads
by Mark Williams | Jan 15, 2022 | Digital Audio, Digital Libraries, Ebooks, Singapore | 0 |
All told OverDrive saw 506 million downloads in 2021, mostly in North America, and of course none...
Read MoreEdinburgh University Press – 68% profit in 2021 driven by “tremendous growth” (49%) in ebook sales
by Mark Williams | Jan 14, 2022 | Academic and specialist publishing, Ebooks, Global Publishing, UK | 0 |
We were well-placed to respond to (lockdown), making all our books simultaneously available in...
Read MoreAudiobook sales soared 93% on Taiwan’s Reedmoo in 2021
by Mark Williams | Jan 12, 2022 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Ebooks, Global Publishing, Taiwan | 0 |
While audiobook demand increased 93%, per headline, this was actually beaten by both novels and...
Read MoreOverDrive’s half billion digital books downloads blows a hole in the narrative of stagnating consumer interest in ebooks
by Mark Williams | Jan 5, 2022 | Digital Libraries, Ebooks, Global Publishing, USA | 0 |
“Equity of access being a key point here, and one that ultimately is at the centre of the...
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