Category: USA
No, the “real” Middle Grade reading crisis has nothing to do with kids having or not having phones
by Mark Williams | May 12, 2024 | Publishing Controversies, TikTok, UK, USA | 2 |
As the industry watches Middle Grade sales and reading decline, grasping at easy excuses – such as that 70% of US nine year-olds don’t have phones – just beggars belief. How the f**k do they think Harry Potter or Enid Blyton got noticed and sold millions of books back in nineteen bow and arrow?
Read MoreDavid Shelley and Hachette face new upheaval as Vivendi prepares to play the stock market game
by Mark Williams | Feb 4, 2024 | France, UK, USA | 0 |
Whatever name the new group is given, Hachette publishing will be run to please the stock market’s fickle whims.
Read MoreWattpad Webtoon signs deals with PRH US, Spain’s Zeta Studios and Australia’s Screen Queensland
by Mark Williams | Jan 23, 2024 | Australia, Ibero-America, Spain, USA, Wattpad | 0 |
Wattpad Webtoon will support three Queensland-based screenwriters or teams to develop film and series projects arising from Wattpad Webtoon content.
Read MoreKKR’s Simon & Schuster pays a non-reader to go on a cruise to promote a book. Gordon Gekko would be appalled
by Mark Williams | Jan 15, 2024 | Publishing Controversies, Social Media, USA | 0 |
The blind leading the blind. Or in this case, Atria leading KKR money on a wild goose chase.
Read MoreUSA – OverDrive downloads up 55% on 2021, but no real numbers and some implausible extrapolations
by Mark Williams | Dec 22, 2023 | Audiobooks, Digital Libraries, Ebooks, USA | 0 |
In 2021, OverDrive reported (January 2022) 506 million downloads globally. A 55% increase on that...
Read MorePhonics – A ticking time-bomb for English-language publishers
by Mark Williams | Dec 21, 2023 | Publishing Controversies, UK, USA | 0 |
In 2019 one in four children were leaving primary school unable to read properly. In England, the...
Read MorePW’s Jim Milliott gets Lifetime Achievement Award
by Mark Williams | Dec 21, 2023 | USA | 0 |
For those of us outside the US, Publishers Weekly has been our indispensable window on American...
Read MoreUSA – 2024 could be a very active year for acquisitions
by Mark Williams | Dec 20, 2023 | USA | 0 |
“Interviews with publishers and dealmakers suggest that 2024 could be a very active year for...
Read MoreMexico – FIL Guadalajara pulls in 857,000 visitors, buoyed by interest in the Spanish-speaking US market
by Mark Williams | Dec 11, 2023 | Ibero-America, Mexico, USA | 0 |
The number of US librarians was up on previous events, to meet growing supply from publishers...
Read MoreNo sign of Gordon Gekko as KKR-owned Simon & Schuster announces new Board
by Mark Williams | Dec 10, 2023 | Publishing Brief, Publishing Controversies, USA | 0 |
“I don’t throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle...
Read MoreUSA – sluggish sales, “Holidays” hopes, and cold realities
by Mark Williams | Nov 13, 2023 | Audiobooks, Digital subscription, Ebooks, Print, USA | 1 |
Milliott’s latest report on the struggling US print market for PW is one of so many it would...
Read MoreUS literary agents question the business model’s viability, but some are missing the bigger picture
by Mark Williams | Oct 22, 2023 | Literary Agents, USA | 0 |
Today, publishing is a different planet. There is so much opportunity. So much potential. So much...
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