As Pandemic Y2 unfolds, rethinking analogue approaches and embracing digital opportunities needs to be at the heart of 2021 publisher-think
The same historically unsound accounting logic pervades the subscription debate, where many...
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Spotify’s US podcast listeners will bump Apple to No. 2 spot this year. Will publishers look the other way as this huge opportunity unfolds?
Publishers still on the fence about subscription – or worse, still in denial – really need to...
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With bookstores closed much of 2020, more publishers inconsiderately report record sales and a “best ever year”
Bricks & mortar bookstores face an uphill struggle this year to demonstrate to publishers that...
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US embraces a new digital reality that goes beyond the “ebooks and social media” era that defined the 2010s
Assuming the vaccine programmes deliver as promised then by this time next year we could be seeing...
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American Library Association confirms its future will be hybrid as 3rd online ALA event announced for June
This is just one more example of how the industry has turned adversity to advantage, embracing...
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US publisher Rowman & Littlefield aims for international digital growth
Put simply digital opens up markets where a traditional print-focussed strategy, with all the...
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Wiley soars thanks to “Record research output and content consumption, robust online enrolment growth, and broad digital courseware adoption”
The pandemic is accelerating trends including a global increase in the demand to publish and...
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Quote Unquote: “Combined ebook and print book sales are expected to be one of the highest-volume years in NPD BookScan history” – Kristen McLean
A key point of interest here being the reference to ebooks, a format that, in recent years...
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Warner Bros. says it will send ALL its 2021 releases to a streaming service at same time as to cinemas. Book publishers – wake up and smell the coffee
This is just one more digital genie that, once out of the bottle, is not going to go back in. HBO...
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Book Expo America is shuttered, leaving the world’s biggest book market with no trade show. Few tears will be shed
The pandemic took away the last of the emperor’s clothes, at no time more clearly than when...
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“Print AND digital, not print OR digital.” – Follett, Baker & Taylor
Ebooks and digital solutions are an ‘and’ to the print book. There are a number of schools,...
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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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