USA – sluggish sales, “Holidays” hopes, and cold realities
Milliott’s latest report on the struggling US print market for PW is one of so many it would...
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USA – Bookstore Sales Fell 17% in August. Ebooks fell, or rose, depending on where you look.
It is not clear just how much college books shifting to digital are contributing to the 17% August...
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Memo to Malaviya: Ditch the Dohle Doctrine and bring PRH into the 21st century
This will be Malaviya’s chance to nail his own colours to the mast and show us he has an...
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US – “Print Books Take a Tumble.”
Nothing too worrying, but also nothing to celebrate . Jim Milliot’s latest look at the US...
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“ISBN hyperinflation” and “arteriosclerosis of distribution channels.” Richard Charkin at large
Which reader is so poorly educated that they might be confused by the fact that there are a lot of...
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“We’re driving toward a paper crisis. More mills are converting to higher-value papers for diapers, etc.”
“We’re driving toward a paper crisis. More mills are converting to higher-value papers for...
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Say hello to HC Arc®, the new font for “non-English” books that no-one has been waiting for
If HCArc® can reduce the amount of paper used per title by up to 20% then that’s certainly a...
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Restructuring at PRH -meaningful, or musical chairs?
In the wake of the Court debacle that led to Markus Dohle’s long-overdue resignation, the...
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US print sales fell 6.5% in 2022 as “interest in reading” fell
Curious how, when it’s declining ebook numbers that are reported, this rationale is set...
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About That Englishman In New York Who Turned The Page On Barnes & Noble…
And somehow Daunt magically beat the ogre at its own game and apparently, they will all live...
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UK – James Daunt isn’t cut out to be a transnational industry tycoon. Waterstones is paying the price
Just maybe, Jim, its time you handed Waterstones management to someone who is actually in the UK...
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“We know just how and where our audience is accessing content in today’s ever-changing landscape.”
Paraphrasing Jessica Cruel’s comment as Markus Dohle might have put it: “We know just...
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