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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Category: Publishing Brief
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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Bookstat misses 18% of Hachette UK top ten ebook sales
The UK trade journal the Bookseller has once again shared the top ten ebook sales number as...
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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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According to Hachette UK Data Guy’s Bookstat over-guessed a best-selling title’s sales by 2,000 and under-guessed another title by 2,500 sales
Reading The Bookseller’s weekly list of bestselling ebooks as provided by Bookstat and by...
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Highlights from Alpha, the second edition of the "PublisHer" newsletter
PublisHer’s second quarterly bulletin began hitting inboxes this past week. The entire email is of...
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Big Bad Wolf partners with DHL and Sharjah Book Authority to deliver 1 BILLION books to emerging markets over next 5 years
Big Bad Wolf has just announced what almost certainly will be its grand finale event for 2019, its...
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It’s now five years since Amazon last opened a Kindle store. Whatever happened to the Bezos dream “to have every book, ever published, in any language available for Kindle customers”?
November 12 marked the fifth anniversary of the Kindle Netherlands store, and five full years...
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