Hachette acquisition of Workman is a Pandemic-era consolidation tale where backlist is the key
Pre-2020 a publishers’ backlist wouldn’t have been a selling point, and backlist not a keyword a...
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Category: USA
Pearson+ subscription app “brings e-books in line with how students buy and experience the rest of their content”. Most other publishers look away
But as the subscription screws tighten, so publishers will have to rethink their resistance to...
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Byju’s acquires children’s reading platform Epic for $500 million in another seismic shift in the publishing landscape
Overseas capital continues to flood the North America publishing market, entering key digital...
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Scribd’s likely $1 billion IPO valuation shows how far US digital books subscription lags behind global rivals
The issue is not if, but when publishers embrace subscription wholesale, and which players they...
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“May Bookstore Sales Jumped 130%.” “May Bookstore Sales Down 9.2%.” US Publishing’s Parallel Narratives
“As an industry we need to come to terms with the new reality – the “new normal” as we liked...
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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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