Category: USA
Urban Publishing Myths: Bookstore closures hurt frontlist sales
Seriously? It’s taken a pandemic to make publishers realise that marketing can be done online? No...
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US audiobook consumption in 2020 rose 12% rise. How much more if unlimited subscription was an option?
One wonders just how many of the publishing industry’s decision makers that willfully object to...
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The AAP’s latest US publishing revenue figures leave tens of millions of dollars in ebook revenue uncounted
We simply don’t know the true scale of the impact ebooks have on the US and global book markets,...
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Amazon buys IP treasure trove. Gets MGM film studio and place in Hollywood history into the bargain
We can be certain the team at Amazon Publishing and Audible will be salivating at the prospect of...
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Storytel’s partnership with Spotify unlocks a back door to the Holy Grail that is the US audiobook market
Unlimited digital books subscription in the US and other mature English-language markets is not a...
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Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors
The invisible ebook market redux: the ebook market is bigger than we realise, and subscription...
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USA’s AAP numbers shows print and digital formats all doing well, but the digital numbers only tell a partial story
And then there’s ebooks, where we can safely say the AAP numbers are at best indicative, but miss...
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Apple’s podcast subscription service will pay creators 70% rising to 85% of creator-set subscription price
With each passing day the digital subscription model engrains itself more and more in the world’s...
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In June 2020 half the NY Times paperback bestseller list came from Ingram’s print on demand service – Mike Shatzkin
POD is an exciting prospect for the global book markets and will come into its own in this coming...
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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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