Category: USA
Buchmesse ’23 promises to be the best yet. Sharjah looms. The US and UK need to up their game to stay relevant
Sharjah is unlike anything publishing has ever witnessed before. A city-state that emerged from...
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Memo to Malaviya: Ditch the Dohle Doctrine and bring PRH into the 21st century
This will be Malaviya’s chance to nail his own colours to the mast and show us he has an...
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US Music market share by volume, by genre. Lessons for book publishers
So what happened between 2015-2016 that recalibrated the US music industry and convinced American...
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H1 ebook revenue down says AAP as it omits well over a quarter billion dollars in uncounted ebook spend
The Kindle Unlimited pot pay-out for self-published authors’ ebooks is on target to exceed...
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TV streaming reminds us of the power of the backlist. Yet publishers still look the other way
Because alongside reach and discoverability, data is the big benefit of digital subscription, and...
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US – print book sales continue to decline. So where is the #BookTok boom the industry loves to get so excited about?
And yet book sales are down. Meaning a) that 4.176 billion of those BookTok views resulted in no...
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Hedge-fund KKR buys Simon & Schuster. A Gordon Gekko moment or a digital beacon of hope?
KKR CEO Pete Stavros will be listening carefully to Richard Sarnoff, and looking closely at what...
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KKR now likely to buy S&S for 27% less than PRH tried to pay. But are hedge-funds good for the industry?
As a one-off acquisition, the Simon & Schuster deal is not deeply worrying, but the broader...
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Uncounted by Circana Bookscan or the AAP, ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out $278.2 million in royalties in H1 2023 (up 10.7%), mostly to self-publishers
Until the industry acknowledged these uncounted additional revenue and unit numbers, the picture...
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US – “Print Books Take a Tumble.”
Nothing too worrying, but also nothing to celebrate . Jim Milliot’s latest look at the US...
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KKR sale of RB Media paves the way for its Simon & Schuster bid. The industry should be concerned
Hedge-fund managers have no long-term interest in the industry, any more than book fair hosting...
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US – Penguin Random House job eliminations show just how redundant was former PRH CEO Markus Dohle’s Sharjah address in May
Beyond the of course painful individual losses is the stark reality that the post-pandemic New...
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