Bookstat misses 18% of Hachette UK top ten ebook sales
The UK trade journal the Bookseller has once again shared the top ten ebook sales number as...
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Ebooks delivered the highest percentage of AAP publisher revenue in US adult fiction in 2018
It will have surprised few that, for the second year running, the StatShot Annual Report of the...
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Has Data Guy’s Author Earnings Report finally been laid to rest?
It’s been well over a year since the last Author Earnings Report was released by Data Guy, the...
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Digital library downloads are hurting Amazon's bottom line. The Hot Sheet reviewed
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter...
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Ebook sales doubled in US in 2018 according to Data Guy's nonsensical BookStat numbers
When Digital Book World announced Data Guy would be delivering the closing keynote speech, during...
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Data Guy rewrites the historical Author Earnings US ebook statistics. 2016 US unit ebook sales of 487 million now 525 million. What are we to believe?
I had occasion to revisit Data Guy’s January 2018 Author Earnings Report this week. And I...
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Audio Publishers Association says 2017 US audiobook market worth $2.5 billion – more than double Data Guy’s BookStat valuation. Who are we to believe?
When the Audio Publishers Association issued its latest valuation of the US audiobook market last...
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GDPR. The Facebook scandal. Amid mounting privacy concerns, Data Guy continues to sell author’s private sales data to Big Pub. But is it even accurate?
It’s now several months since the January 2018 Author Earnings Report arrived. You can still find...
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Amazon expands UK imprint ambitions as A-Pub holds half the US top ten today. A-Pub has more titles than Bloomsbury, Kensington or HMH if BookStat numbers are correct
At noon today (GMT) five of the top ten slots in the Kindle charts were taken by Lake Union (2),...
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Over half the top 100 titles on Kindle UK are breaking the metadata rules. A third of the Kindle US top 100 today are Amazon imprint titles.
It’s just over a month since the Book Industry Communication organisation issued a widely...
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The Hot Sheet Reviewed – first February 2018 edition
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter...
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