US print sales fall another 6% as the Q1 declines continue into Q2
Perhaps the man with most cause for concern will be James Daunt, the Atlantic-straddling CEO of...
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Category: Publishing Brief
A reprinted 1934 book going viral on BookTok sends an unequivocal message to publishers sitting on backlists and to publishers who still think the internet is the enemy of reading
A BookTok clip about Cain’s Jawbone has had 4.2 million views, gained over 1 million likes, has...
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From Pandemic Panic to Pandemic Accommodation – global book fairs adjust to the New New Normal as Sharjah becomes world’s largest book fair
Sharjah this month eclipsed the mighty Buchmesse as the world’s largest book fair, taking the...
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Podcastle attracts $7 million in fresh funding for its AI-driven podcast production platform
The same AI tools that make the podcast market so exciting are of course also applicable to...
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Bloomsbury acquires video streaming service, saying “streaming is a core strand in our strategic growth plans”
“Streaming has been gaining considerable institutional traction and, as a logical outcome of...
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Hachette acquisition of Workman is a Pandemic-era consolidation tale where backlist is the key
Pre-2020 a publishers’ backlist wouldn’t have been a selling point, and backlist not a keyword a...
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As Pandemic Y2 unfolds, rethinking analogue approaches and embracing digital opportunities needs to be at the heart of 2021 publisher-think
The same historically unsound accounting logic pervades the subscription debate, where many...
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Quibi’s failure is not a sign of impending doom for digital books subscription. Just the opposite
If the whole point of Quibi was to offer consumers ten-minute video breaks in their busy lives in...
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The IPA’s State of Publishing Reports offer new global perspectives
“There is such a wealth of information in these reports that publishers and publishers’...
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Publishing parallels: “We know that digital is the new normal. The consumer today is digitally grounded and simply will not revert back” – Nike CEO
The lessons from other industries, even those closely allied to the book trade like movies and...
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Sharjah Publishers Club shows Arab publishers the power of social media to engage audiences and advance book sales
The focus is on getting Arab publishers to widely recognise what an elite few already know – that...
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International Publishers Association – Arab Publishers Association Debate: “Publishing in the Arab World during the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Live on YouTube Monday 13 July
International Publishers Association Secretary General José Borghino will be talking with Bachar...
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