Category: UK
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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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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