“May Bookstore Sales Jumped 130%.” “May Bookstore Sales Down 9.2%.” US Publishing’s Parallel Narratives
“As an industry we need to come to terms with the new reality – the “new normal” as we liked...
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Category: North America
Amazon finally enters the online reading field, but Kindle Vella looks to be a half-hearted effort rushed out to be a spoiler for China Lit’s North America push
Safe to say a lucky few authors will do very well from Kindle Vella, and Amazon will make a big...
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Tencent’s China Literature targets 49 million online readers outside China, with North America to supply 100,000 authors
As western consumer patterns slowly adjust to the subscription-orientated New Normal so the...
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US embraces a new digital reality that goes beyond the “ebooks and social media” era that defined the 2010s
Assuming the vaccine programmes deliver as promised then by this time next year we could be seeing...
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American Library Association confirms its future will be hybrid as 3rd online ALA event announced for June
This is just one more example of how the industry has turned adversity to advantage, embracing...
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PRH Canada devolves RH and Knopf in move that weakens the argument against the Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon & Schuster
The move is not related to the Simon & Schuster buyout, and was initially planned for the...
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Quote Unquote: “Combined ebook and print book sales are expected to be one of the highest-volume years in NPD BookScan history” – Kristen McLean
A key point of interest here being the reference to ebooks, a format that, in recent years...
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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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