Video game becomes part of Poland’s official school reading list as the definition of books and reading blurs
For the purists among us who think that a book isn’t a book unless it was written by hand with a...
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Category: Publishing Controversies
Lockdown exposes the deep flaws in Data Guy’s Bookstat guessing game
From the very first Author Earnings Report the efforts of the web-scraping expert known as Data...
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Simon & Schuster Q1 revenue up 4%, driven by 16% growth in ebook and audiobook sales. Audio defies the no-commuters-equals-no-audiobook-sales narrative
As part of ViacomCBS the Simon & Schuster management, like HarperCollins, understands the...
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Mapping the new normal: USA’s Books-A-Million re-opens bookstores with curbside pick-up, staff in PPE, telephone experts, and cosmetic cases in beautiful floral prints
America’s second-largest bookstore chain, Books-A-Million, is readying for Mother’s...
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“Just. &%$*@. Stop.” Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn tells the coronavirus book scammers where they can stuff their “snake-oil quackery, conspiracy theories, and raw disinformation”
When it comes to book scams, digital makes it easy for pretty much anyone anywhere to get in on...
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Publishers Weekly launches #BooksAreEssential social media campaign to support the industry. But essential to who?
In times of crisis we often have to make difficult choices, redefine our priorities, and make...
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Data Guy’s Bookstat reins in its guesses on Hachette titles, but still hundreds out either way
Having been out by many thousands in recent weeks, Data Guy’s Bookstat, which purports to...
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Data Guy’s Bookstat over-guesses UK ebook sales by 14,000 units for 5 of the top 10, say two publishers with the real numbers
Once again the UK’s The Bookseller has reproduced the Bookstat ebook bestsellers top ten...
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Digital Book World bans Macmillan from September DBW conference as US libraries dispute escalates
Here at TNPS I’ve not covered the Macmillan dispute with libraries in any depth, as the...
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Gaming the system pays… on Amazon UK. Over 30% of the Amazon UK Top 100 Kindle ebooks are in breach of Amazon rules and BIC guidelines. Including Amazon’s own titles
Back in March 2018 the BIC called on UK publishers not to game the system by abusing metadata....
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Déjà vu. Once again self-published authors are not welcome at the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
Last year the Wall Street Journal noted how Jeff Bezos had proudly told us how thousands of...
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PublisHer launches new website
One of the most exciting developments in global publishing this year has been the emergence of...
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