Category: North America
Book Expo America is shuttered, leaving the world’s biggest book market with no trade show. Few tears will be shed
The pandemic took away the last of the emperor’s clothes, at no time more clearly than when...
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Canada’s De Marque raises $5 million as a 35% lockdown ebook boom becomes a 25%-30% sustained increase
It’s not clear if Blouin’s “notably the United States” is a reference simply to the size of the US...
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Mark Williams At Large: Perspectives on the Publishing Week
As the pandemic enters its second wave, Big 5 publisher Macmillan starts hiring again, raises its...
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“I absolutely love Nook, and I think my predecessors had fallen out of love with it. I’m a champion of digital books and digital book retailing” – Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt
Daunt continued selling epub ebooks in the Waterstone’s ebook store while simultaneously inviting...
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“The time is right for subscription.” Kobo launches unlimited digital books streaming service in Canada
Rakuten Kobo has been successfully streaming digital books through its Kobo Plus subscription...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter for serious self-publishers, Publish Global # 5, is now out
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for the serious self-publisher with...
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Canada’s publishers face deluge of returns as bookstores re-open after eight weeks lockdown and a 63% drop in sales
Canada’s book publishing trade association Booknet is warning that as bookstores open their doors...
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USA’s Book Expo America finally does the right thing. BEA cancelled until 2021. Promises automatic refunds
We can save until another day the debate over why it took Book Expo America so long to face up to...
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“Ebooks are the heroes of the crisis. Libraries have halted the purchase of physical books and are switching all purchasing to digital” – BISG report on Covid-19’s impact on publishing
Publishers Weekly’s report on the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) video chat (April 9) about the...
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The Big 5 are out of Book Expo America but BEA says the show will go on as a New Yorker dies every 6 minutes from the coronavirus. BEA, end this obscene farce now
As the week ended Hachette joined Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Penguin...
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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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Book Expo America postponed – but only until July. What planet are they on?
As news came in this evening (GMT) that Book Expo America had postponed the May event it seemed...
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