Category: UK
Bookstat misses 18% of Hachette UK top ten ebook sales
The UK trade journal the Bookseller has once again shared the top ten ebook sales number as...
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Quote Unquote: “a life saving growth of 300% in our D2C e-commerce sales during lockdown” – Verso
While many publishers have this past decade continued to rely heavily on bricks & mortar...
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Quote Unquote: “Our strategy of expanding and leveraging our digital rights and products means increased demand for audio and ebooks. A perfect moment for ebooks.” – Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Publishing defies Covid-19 expectations, with revenue down just 3%, thanks to robust...
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Lockdown exposes the deep flaws in Data Guy’s Bookstat guessing game
From the very first Author Earnings Report the efforts of the web-scraping expert known as Data...
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Quote Unquote: Reasons to be wide and digital
Publishers who have broad publishing programmes and sell across a range of retailers, including...
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Mapping the New Normal – unlimited streaming services from Alamo, Yippee and Mills & Boon as Faber CEO admits “lockdown lessons will outlast the pandemic”
Unlimited video streaming services are proliferating like wildfire, and unlimited ebook and...
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UK govt. acts on March TNPS call to cut VAT on ebooks to fight the coronavirus
With impeccably bad timing the UK government in April announced it would cut VAT on ebooks from...
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Data Guy’s Bookstat under-guesses sales on 3 Hachette ebooks by 14,000, throwing Bookstat numbers for non-Hachette titles into doubt
The problem with claiming upwards of 95% accuracy when guessing ebook sales based on relative...
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London Book Fair adds insult to injury with a 60% refund. Expects publishers to trust it in 2021
Sixty per cent. That’s what London Book Fair is offering by way of a refund to thousands of...
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Data Guy’s Bookstat reins in its guesses on Hachette titles, but still hundreds out either way
Having been out by many thousands in recent weeks, Data Guy’s Bookstat, which purports to...
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UK books wholesale Gardners restarts online delivery as coronavirus kills a Brit every 2 minutes. A printed book is not an essential commodity worth risking lives for
When Bertrams and Gardners shuttered their UK warehouses as this month started it seemed liked...
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UK online print at risk as Gardners and Hive suspend activity and Waterstones struggles. James Daunt will be seeing Nook in a new light
If it seemed, for a while, that online print sales could sustain publishers and booksellers...
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