Category: UK
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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US ebook market unit sales rose 31% in April – Nielsen. Meanwhile the PA’s Lotinga plays down 2019 digital gains in UK’s “best year ever”
Digital formats (ebooks, e-journals, online subscriptions, learning management systems, etc)...
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Mapping the New Normal: James Daunt U-turns on ebooks. Plans to invest in Nook and restore Waterstones ebooks. Rewrites history to suit
No, I double-checked the date. It’s not April 1 and James Daunt, CEO of the UK’s Waterstone’s and...
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Mapping the New Normal: UK loses 5 Blackwell’s university bookstores to coronavirus
With 28 stores across the country, Blackwell’s competes with UK bookstore chains Waterstones...
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Mapping the New Normal: UK’s virtual Hay Festival draws an online crowd of 500,000
The annual Hay Festival that takes place on the border of England and Wales is the UK’s...
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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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