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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

by Mark Williams | Oct 29, 2019 | Amazon, Ebooks, Publishing Controversies, UK | 2 |

Back in March 2018 the BIC called on UK publishers not to game the system by abusing metadata....

Déjà vu. Once again self-published authors are not welcome at the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award

by Mark Williams | Oct 23, 2019 | Awards, Publishing Controversies, UK | 0 |

Last year the Wall Street Journal noted how Jeff Bezos had proudly told us how thousands of...

PublisHer launches new website

by Mark Williams | Oct 23, 2019 | Africa, Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Publishing Controversies, Publishing News | 0 |

One of the most exciting developments in global publishing this year has been the emergence of...

Marvel Avengers comic banned at Brazil’s Rio book fair because of a gay kiss

by Mark Williams | Sep 7, 2019 | Brazil, Comics, Global Publishing, Ibero-America, Latin America, Publishing Controversies, The global book market | 0 |

Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, published between 2010-12 in the US, has been available in...

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

by Mark Williams | Aug 21, 2019 | Amazon, Metadata, Publishing Brief, Publishing Controversies | 0 |

Rules are there to be broken. At least, that appears to be the thinking of many in the UK...

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

by Mark Williams | Aug 19, 2019 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital Libraries, Ebooks, Global Publishing, Publishing Controversies, The global book market | 1 |

This is a remarkable story that blows apart the faux narratives that smartphones are destroying...

While some publishers see social media as the enemy, others understand Instagram = instabooks = instaprofits

by Mark Williams | Aug 5, 2019 | Global Publishing, Publishing Controversies, Social Media | 1 |

We hear it so often it’s easy to start believing it. Nobody reads because they are all on social...

Publishers look the other way as VOD streamers target Middle East’s “spiral of growth” in a “highly lucrative market of digital first consumers”

by Mark Williams | Jul 30, 2019 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, ebook subscription services, Film & TV, Global Publishing, Middle East, Publishing Controversies, The global book market | 0 |

India’s SonyLIV is the latest video streaming operator to enter the lucrative and fast-growing...

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

by Mark Williams | Jul 22, 2019 | Book Fairs, Comics, Film & TV, Global Publishing, North America, Publishing Controversies, The global book market | 0 |

Tom Cruise. Natalie Portman, Patrick Stewart… The San Diego Comic Con has been dominated by...

India’s Coimbatore Book Fair launches amid more nonsense about how social media and smartphones are killing the reading habit. It really is time publishers took the blinkers off

by Mark Williams | Jul 18, 2019 | Book Fairs, Digital Libraries, Global Publishing, India, Publishing Controversies, The global book market | 0 |

Summer is a quiet time in the Indian book fair scene, with the mega-events that attract millions...

Brazil’s Jaraguá do Sul Book Fair says it cannot guarantee the safety of guest speakers amid death-threats

by Mark Williams | Jul 17, 2019 | Book Fairs, Brazil, Censorship, Global Publishing, Publishing Controversies | 0 |

Banned books at book fairs is nothing new, and we are mostly eager to condemn such practices, in...

Nigeria’s booksellers promise vibrant trade, but casting social media as the enemy is not the way to make that happen

by Mark Williams | Jun 2, 2019 | Africa, bookstores, Global Publishing, Nigeria, Publishing Controversies, The global book market | 1 |

Nigeria’s Booksellers Association (BAN) has fresh blood after recent AGM elections, and BAN’s new...

Category: Publishing Controversies

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

Déjà vu. Once again self-published authors are not welcome at the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award

PublisHer launches new website

Marvel Avengers comic banned at Brazil’s Rio book fair because of a gay kiss

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

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

Publishers look the other way as VOD streamers target Middle East’s “spiral of growth” in a “highly lucrative market of digital first consumers”

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

India’s Coimbatore Book Fair launches amid more nonsense about how social media and smartphones are killing the reading habit. It really is time publishers took the blinkers off

Brazil’s Jaraguá do Sul Book Fair says it cannot guarantee the safety of guest speakers amid death-threats

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