Category: Publishing Controversies
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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Marvel Avengers comic banned at Brazil's Rio book fair because of a gay kiss
Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, published between 2010-12 in the US, has been available in...
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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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OverDrive’s Sora digital reading app for schools had 5.5 million checkouts in its first year, and saw reading time double in six months
This is a remarkable story that blows apart the faux narratives that smartphones are destroying...
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While some publishers see social media as the enemy, others understand Instagram = instabooks = instaprofits
We hear it so often it’s easy to start believing it. Nobody reads because they are all on social...
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Publishers look the other way as VOD streamers target Middle East’s “spiral of growth” in a “highly lucrative market of digital first consumers”
India’s SonyLIV is the latest video streaming operator to enter the lucrative and fast-growing...
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The San Diego Comic Con reminds us the attention economy is a two way street for the publishing industry, not an us-and-them battle of buzz-phrases
Tom Cruise. Natalie Portman, Patrick Stewart… The San Diego Comic Con has been dominated by...
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