Category: Publishing Brief
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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Digital now delivers 56% of revenue for car manual publisher Haynes
If we’ve ever been bold enough to try some car maintenance we’ve probably has an oil-covered...
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Publish MENA – the digital advantage #3 is now available
The joint StreetLib-TNPS bi-weekly newsletter Publish MENA – the digital...
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In March 2018 the BIC called on UK publishers not to abuse metadata. Today 60% of Amazon UK’s “Most Sold” Top 20 got there by metadata abuse
Rules are there to be broken. At least, that appears to be the thinking of many in the UK...
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A prospective Bible shortage drives home the unhealthy reliance of the US publishing industry on China’s printers
Leaving aside any debate about the rights and wrongs of the US-China trade dispute and tariffs...
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