Category: Ebooks
Weeks before the busiest trading period of the year, and without waiting for the results, the Amazon axe continues to swing
The prospect of Amazon following its music route becomes all the stronger as Jassy runs out of...
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The most important event at Frankfurt 2022 is available to watch on video. Kobo, Wattpad and the “dark matter” of publishing
The internet and electricity gods have been in foul mood this past week, but thankfully the most...
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As printing costs soar in Bangladesh, few publishers seem aware there are 130 million people online
The tragedy is many publishers will fail this coming year as print prices for consumers spiral out...
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Kindle Unlimited paid out over $250 million to indie authors in H1 as APA reports total H1 ebook market of $500 million
If we take the APA’s June count and add only the Kindle Unlimited pot pay-out we know of, and...
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Readers prefer “real” books rather than ebooks or audiobooks – writes a renewable pulp and paper manufacturer
Who would want to pay $20 – or even just $10 – for a digital file they will never own...
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OverDrive’s Sora, the reading app for schools, clocks 100 million downloads – 87% ebooks – that the APA won’t have counted
“It’s difficult to quantify what 100 million books looks like — and doubly difficult when the...
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300 million Bengali speakers finally get an ebook store, but no it’s not a world first
Amazon supports five Indian languages for its Amazon India operation (ebooks only, not print or...
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APA’s April StatShot: $84 million ebook revenue. In the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $41 million to indie authors and small presses
Even without knowing the KU and a la carte APub numbers (which we can see from ebook chart...
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Kobo’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
What we need to see next is Tamblyn at the Sharjah International Book Fair alongside Bodour al...
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As print sales plummet 20%, industry says print fatigue is to blame
Imagine for one second that it was ebook sales that had precipitously dropped 20% in the past week...
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Confusion at Bologna over Arabic language and digital books compatibility amid a wider piracy problem
It was one year ago this month that Amazon launched in Poland, amusingly selling Kindle devices...
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Amazon’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)
We need to seriously entertain the possibility that the so-called fall in ebook sales that...
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