Category: UK
“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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Bloomsbury profits soar 60% thanks to “significantly higher” online and ebook sales. Just how indispensable are bookstores to publishers?
For bricks & mortar booksellers that emerge from the pandemic in one piece perhaps the biggest...
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“’#fakefurt’ risks becoming just a moment that over time becomes a season and then a continuum” – Philip Jones, The Bookseller, on the digital Buchmesse
We should also be clear that the virtual Frankfurt is no fake, but rather the new reality. Even if...
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Mark Williams At Large: Perspectives on the Publishing Week
As the pandemic enters its second wave, Big 5 publisher Macmillan starts hiring again, raises its...
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Sweden’s self-publishing platform Type & Tell to close Sept. 30 as Amazon Sweden signs first publisher deal
A confirmed publisher deal indicates books will be part of the imminent Amazon Sweden launch, but...
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“I absolutely love Nook, and I think my predecessors had fallen out of love with it. I’m a champion of digital books and digital book retailing” – Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt
Daunt continued selling epub ebooks in the Waterstone’s ebook store while simultaneously inviting...
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Quote Unquote: “The strongest digital sales performance in years” – HarperCollins. “Robust growth in digital formats” – Hachette
HarperCollins and Hachette digital safety nets kick in. HarperCollins sees 39% of H2 revenue from...
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Quote Unquote: UK – “Publishers who didn’t care about digital are putting a lot of money into that now”
Arts Council England is, for those unfamiliar with the UK’s troubled political divisions,...
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Pearson and Scholastic results – trade up and digital up but overall Covid-19 impact is hurting
At TNPS the focus is on international publishing, but we occasionally offer perspectives on the US...
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