Category: Europe
Data Guy’s Bookstat reins in its guesses on Hachette titles, but still hundreds out either way
Having been out by many thousands in recent weeks, Data Guy’s Bookstat, which purports to...
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UK books wholesale Gardners restarts online delivery as coronavirus kills 2 Brits every minute. A printed book is not an essential commodity worth risking lives for
When Bertrams and Gardners shuttered their UK warehouses as this month started it seemed liked...
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UK online print at risk as Gardners and Hive suspend activity and Waterstones struggles. James Daunt will be seeing Nook in a new light
If it seemed, for a while, that online print sales could sustain publishers and booksellers...
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Sweden’s audiobook subscription service Bokus Play to carry ebooks, launch own e-reader
While audiobooks tend to dominate the headlines about digital books streaming, most subscription...
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Industry News Round-Up 26 March 2020
A round-up of key industry news in these challenging times. Apologies if the linked reports for...
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As Brits treat social distancing as a game, UK’s Waterstones opts to close stores nationwide just days after Daunt asked for books to be given special status
Sometimes it can be embarrassing to be British. First we had Brexit. Then the coronavirus arrived...
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“Unprecedented demand” for books at UK’s Waterstones as consumers occupy themselves at home. Has Amazon missed an opportunity?
At first glance the call from Waterstones and Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt that books be...
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Will the Amazon Netherlands launch this week boost Dutch book and ebook sales?
For publishers and authors outside the Netherlands it may come as a surprise to learn that Amazon...
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Amazon prepares Poland launch without books or ebooks. KDP Print now supports Hebrew and Yiddish. Might Arabic print be an option this year?
Back in November 2019 Amazon announced its plans for a launch in Poland, and while there are no...
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Denmark’s Saga Egmont becomes Spain’s largest audiobook publisher on Audiomol-catalogue acquisition
Copenhagen-based Saga Egmont famously insists that all publisher’s books must be present in...
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Romania’s Timișoara Bookfest the latest publishing casualty of the Coronavirus. Bucharest Bookfest now on at at-risk list
TNPS opened this month with a list of at-risk publishing events that could be cancelled due to the...
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Bologna and BEA face inevitable cancellation. Frankfurt 2020 is on the at-risk list. Thailand’s Bangkok IBF moves online. Global publishing faces a watershed moment as digital takes centre-stage
Belgium’s Brussels Book Fair has traditionally been one of the least-noticed of the European...
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