Category: UK
Global publishers – social media is not your enemy
What is up with the youth of today? Don’t they understand that reading is something you have...
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Do UK 18-24 year-olds have secret access to Spotify’s not-yet-launched audiobooks platform?
“18 to 24-year-olds were found to be more likely to use non-Amazon retailers compared to...
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UK – Waterstones warehouse system improved – but not by much
James Daunt isn’t cut out to be a transnational industry tycoon – redux Ruth Comerford at...
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UK – James Daunt isn’t cut out to be a transnational industry tycoon. Waterstones is paying the price
Just maybe, Jim, its time you handed Waterstones management to someone who is actually in the UK...
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UK – Publishers ‘on brink of collapse’ as US-owned UK distributor struggles
Publishers have warned some firms are being driven to “the brink of collapse” by ongoing issues...
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UK – Words by the Water book festival axed over cost of living. How soon before bigger events feel the pinch?
As we head into a winter of economic uncertainty the future of bigger publishing events will be in...
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French-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani will chair 2023 International Booker Prize
At a time when many literary awards seems to be endangered species, it’s great to see the...
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Edinburgh University Press – 68% profit in 2021 driven by “tremendous growth” (49%) in ebook sales
We were well-placed to respond to (lockdown), making all our books simultaneously available in...
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Lessons for book publishers as retro railway magazines gather steam with unlimited subscription
Peco launched its Railways Modeller backlist in its entirety on October 13 2021, and saw an...
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Pandemic Y3’s first major book fair casualty is Brussels. What hope for London and Bologna?
The now cancelled Brussels event was twelve weeks away. Bologna is 14 weeks away. London is 16...
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UK audiobook revenue up 71% on 2019. Ebooks up 10%. Consumer print up 6%. Children’s digital up 26%. Digital consumer non-fiction up 30%
Given both Findaway and Audiobooks.com impact on the UK market; and given Spotify is already a...
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Bookstore UK, the antidote to Amazon, delivered $2.3 million to UK indie bookstores in its first year
The imminent pandemic winter may or may not be as bad as last year, but it will be bad, and...
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