Falling German book sales amid a triple-figure rise in digital subscription hammers another nail in the (Markus) Dohle Doctrine
The sooner the coffin lid of the Dohle Doctrine is firmly nailed down, the better for all. It...
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Tag: Germany book market
Germany’s Thalia buys into Austria’s self-pub start-up Storylution. “A new age of book creation”?
The comparison with the music industry is bewildering. The 2020s music industry is not driven by...
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Germany’s Leipzig Book Fair will be in-person just 2 weeks after the expected peak in covid-19 cases
With Germany just having passed 10 million cases, and averaging over 200,000 new cases per day, it...
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Hedge-fund owned RBMedia launches in German-language audiobook markets
One should not be too surprised if KKR sells RBMedia Verlag and its imprints to Storytel in...
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Frankfurt puts a brave face on the Pandemic Edition, but the low turnout does not augur well for LBF and Bologna as Covid-19 resurges
Against such a background we should look at Frankfurt this week, with its 15 publishers in a...
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SAGA Egmont is now Germany’s largest audiobook publisher
“Untapped potential for authors and publishers.” That’s the sweet spot where digital and global...
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Germany’s Leipzig Book Fair to be digital this year
For global publishing the new normal is yet to fully emerge, but we can be certain we’ll see...
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Bookwire: ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts do not cannibalise, but act in a “mutually reinforcing manner”
Ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts have become mainstream. Ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts are...
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Mapping the New Normal: As HarperCollins, Macmillan and Bonnier lead the Exodus, it’s time for the Frankfurt Book Fair to rethink its focus
The ink was barely dry on the Buchmesse statement announcing a hybrid in-person and virtual event...
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VAT on ebooks drops from 19% to 7% in Germany. UK continues to look the other way
Börsenblatt reports that from yesterday, December 18, the VAT rate for digital books fell from 19%...
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Despite all the streamed video, social media, games and other book-killing distractions, 76% of German kids 4-13 like reading
That headline finding comes from Kinder-Medien-Studie 2019 which took the pleasure pulse of 7.31...
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