Category: UK
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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$120,000 fundraiser for UK booksellers
When Gayle Lazda from the London Review Bookshop, Picador commissioning editor Kishani Widyaratna...
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Industry News Round-Up 26 March 2020
A round-up of key industry news in these challenging times. Apologies if the linked reports for...
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As Brits treat social distancing as a game, UK’s Waterstones opts to close stores nationwide just days after Daunt asked for books to be given special status
Sometimes it can be embarrassing to be British. First we had Brexit. Then the coronavirus arrived...
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According to Hachette UK Data Guy’s Bookstat over-guessed a best-selling title’s sales by 2,000 and under-guessed another title by 2,500 sales
Reading The Bookseller’s weekly list of bestselling ebooks as provided by Bookstat and by...
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“Unprecedented demand” for books at UK’s Waterstones as consumers occupy themselves at home. Has Amazon missed an opportunity?
At first glance the call from Waterstones and Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt that books be...
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UK to cut VAT on ebooks from December. A missed opportunity to help contain the coronavirus
In different circumstances it would be a huge cause for celebration. The same Tory government that...
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Finally! Reed Exhibitions cancels the London Book Fair as DC Comics cancels all March events in US. Book Expo America is on the at-risk list
The 2020 publishing industry calendar is being rewritten by the day as the Coronavirus crisis...
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Ghost Town. London Book Fair insists the event will go ahead as Leipzig Book Fair cancelled. LBF exhibitors and visitors vote with their feet
It’s getting hard to keep up with the list of major exhibitors announcing they will go...
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TNPS publisher StreetLib pulls from London Book Fair
Normally when we report news about TNPS parent company StreetLib, it is clearly labelled as such...
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ParisManga joins Paris Book Fair as Coronavirus cancellations. More exhibitors pull from LBF. London Book Fair, it’s time to the right thing
The Paris Book Fair wasn’t the only casualty of the Coronavirus over the weekend. The Paris...
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HarperCollins and Hachette pull from London Book Fair as exodus grows
As HarperCollins and Hachette pull out of the London Book Fair, joining Penguin, Macmillan,...
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