Category: Publishing Brief
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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The India book market remains "a giant in slumber” as new taxes hit imports amid rising paper prices
In an ill-considered move aimed at protecting the domestic publishing industry, the Indian...
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Toy Story 4 pays the price for historical indifference to future markets. A lesson publishers can learn from
Not for the first time, a major Hollywood movie opened in China before the US, but hopes of a...
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Boldwood Books goes energetically global with simultaneous ebook, audiobook and POD, but will they still be leaving money on the table?
With a name like Boldwood Books one really wouldn’t expect anything less than a bold launch of a...
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As China prepares to leapfrog the USA as the world’s largest film market next year, publishers should take notice
It was back in 2015 that China jumped the US to take top spot for the most cinema goers. Hardly...
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