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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Category: Ebooks
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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Singapore, 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
All told OverDrive saw 506 million downloads in 2021, mostly in North America, and of course none...
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Edinburgh University Press – 68% profit in 2021 driven by “tremendous growth” (49%) in ebook sales
We were well-placed to respond to (lockdown), making all our books simultaneously available in...
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Audiobook sales soared 93% on Taiwan’s Reedmoo in 2021
While audiobook demand increased 93%, per headline, this was actually beaten by both novels and...
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OverDrive’s half billion digital books downloads blows a hole in the narrative of stagnating consumer interest in ebooks
“Equity of access being a key point here, and one that ultimately is at the centre of the...
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AAP reports October ebook REVENUE worth $84 million. For the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $39.8 million in ROYALTIES. Just how big is the real ebook market no-one wants to talk about?
Per the AAP, tracked ebook sales REVENUE from January through October 2021 amounted to $892.5...
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Byju’s acquires children’s reading platform Epic for $500 million in another seismic shift in the publishing landscape
Overseas capital continues to flood the North America publishing market, entering key digital...
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Storytel Ereader launches in Netherlands and Belgium, confirming Tellander’s quiet commitment to ebooks
The latest roll-out of the Storytel e-in e-reader is testament to the fact that Jonas Tellander...
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The AAP’s latest US publishing revenue figures leave tens of millions of dollars in ebook revenue uncounted
We simply don’t know the true scale of the impact ebooks have on the US and global book markets,...
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Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors
The invisible ebook market redux: the ebook market is bigger than we realise, and subscription...
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