“Book Publishers Face a Year of Transition” – Kristen McLean
One way publishers can adapt to an evolving market is to be aware of the changes in consumer...
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Category: USA
TNPS values the US trade ebook market at $3.65 billion in 2022, regardless of what the AAP and Nielsen will tell us
That still leaves audio a long, long way to go – another $1.65 billion since you ask – to...
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US print sales fell 6.5% in 2022 as “interest in reading” fell
Curious how, when it’s declining ebook numbers that are reported, this rationale is set...
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Do authors need publishers? Shatzkin concludes not
Shatzkin: “The biggest change of all is that publishers aren’t “necessary” for an author to have a...
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Markus Dohle was past his expiry date. The industry will be stronger for his moving on
After all, the man has not died. These aren’t forgive-and-forget obituaries where we...
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Spotify’s “game-changer” – just the first ripples of the seismic shift in the publishing landscape that began in 2020
TNPS August 2020: “While the ripples won’t be felt for some time, we are witnessing a...
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Superman comic sells for record $3.4 million
But the record will probably fall next week. And it’s not “the” record. ICV2...
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Kindle Unlimited paid out over $250 million to indie authors in H1 as APA reports total H1 ebook market of $500 million
If we take the APA’s June count and add only the Kindle Unlimited pot pay-out we know of, and...
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July US print book sales down 8.8% in first week. Fortunately Nikki Haley maths do not apply
It’s just a shame much of the industry cannot apply the same reasoned rationale to ebooks,...
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US print sales fall another 6% as the Q1 declines continue into Q2
Perhaps the man with most cause for concern will be James Daunt, the Atlantic-straddling CEO of...
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As print sales plummet 20%, industry says print fatigue is to blame
Imagine for one second that it was ebook sales that had precipitously dropped 20% in the past week...
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Amazon’s unlimited ebook subscription service paid out $450 million to self-published authors in 2021 as AAP reports US ebook market worth $1.1 billion. Just how big is the real ebook market no-one wants to talk about? (redux)
We need to seriously entertain the possibility that the so-called fall in ebook sales that...
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