Category: UK
Bologna drops in-person event. Strengthens its digital fair. LBF keeps publishers guessing
One has to wonder if the London Book Fair as we know it even has a future, or if, like it’s US...
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UK: Scotland’s John O’Groats Book Festival goes online this year as England’s London Book Fair dithers
“Other book festivals have done similar in going digital. The organisers of the Islay Book...
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Déjà vu as London Book Fair descends into farce for second year running. Time to put 2021 on hold, ditch Reed Exhibitions, and think about the New Normal
LBF21 might just manage to hobble forward this summer, but the right thing to do is to put it out...
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UK: 257 m. print books sold, 95 m. ebooks sold, 23 m. audiobooks sold in 2020, a record year amid bookstore closures
Just maybe deliberately overpriced ebooks will become a thing of the past as publishers examine...
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Thinking the unthinkable: The Bookseller’s Philip Jones finally acknowledges what TNPS has been saying for a year: high street bookshops “are facing an existential challenge”
The biggest reason bricks & mortar bookstores have to expect the continued backing of...
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We have laboured under a “prevailing myth” that publishers needed to move around (to) meet colleagues across the world – Philip Jones
“The importance of these spontaneous conversations that have always been a welcome byproduct of...
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Frankfurt Book Fair October 2021 will be hybrid this year as expected. Meanwhile London, June, leaves us guessing
With the continuing uncertainty about what will and will not be legally permitted in England by...
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With bookstores closed much of 2020, more publishers inconsiderately report record sales and a “best ever year”
Bricks & mortar bookstores face an uphill struggle this year to demonstrate to publishers that...
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“Non-essential” UK bookstore retail faces an existential challenge as 2021 lockdown bites
Many publishers will be watching their retail accounts closely this lockdown and wondering at what...
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UK: Ebooks and audiobooks head for all-time high in 2020. So much for “screen fatigue”
The bottom line is, even with the pandemic, digital books remain a (comparatively) small part of...
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Nielsen survey shows UK audiobooks boom continues with 15.8% unit growth, but no, ebook reading is not on the slide
It’s worth comparing the £164 million ($215 million) Nielsen forecast for 2020 UK audiobook...
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UK: Bloomsbury hits 30% digital with 60% profits boost. The Bookseller, dismayed, says, “There is an upside”
“Swing that pendulum back to the 1980s immediately! We can’t have publishers...
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