Category: North America
Visiting public libraries in the USA is twice as popular as going to the movies, despite record-breaking digital library downloads
With an average 10.5 trips to the library in 2019, the latest Gallup poll tells us library visits...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 12-18
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Amazon’s Audible and US audiobook publishers reach settlement in captions dispute
Not much detail on this story as yet, but it seems Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service,...
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PRK UK’s new centralised rights; B&N Education’s poor quarter; Hachette UK’s Changing the Story Day; PRH UK’s Xmas Gift site
A quick glance at some top publishing stories from the industry trade journals. PRH UK unveils...
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Publishers Weekly’s BookLife launches paid reviews for self-publishing authors
If you are a self-published author and don’t mind waiting 4-6 weeks, and handing over some cash,...
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StreetLib adds podcasts to its armoury. Partners with Voxnest’s N.Y. podcasting platform Spreaker
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a...
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Scholastic adds its children’s and YA list to the OverDrive digital library catalogue
Scholastic has boosted Rakuten OverDrive’s schools ebook catalogue with Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man and a...
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The San Diego Comic Con reminds us the attention economy is a two way street for the publishing industry, not an us-and-them battle of buzz-phrases
Tom Cruise. Natalie Portman, Patrick Stewart… The San Diego Comic Con has been dominated by...
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As OverDrive’s Libby partners with Apple’s CarPlay, how long before publishers start reigning in digital library audiobooks?
Thanks to a deal between Apple and Rakuten-OverDrive, the digital library app Libby is now...
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Pearson to phase out print textbooks in US as digital gathers momentum
As one of the world’s largest education publishing companies, the news that Pearson is to phase...
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Ebooks delivered the highest percentage of AAP publisher revenue in US adult fiction in 2018
It will have surprised few that, for the second year running, the StatShot Annual Report of the...
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OverDrive’s Sora app sees 240% increase in reading when school digital libraries connect to public libraries. A lesson in giving consumers choice
At the American Library Association Annual Meeting this month digital library content...
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