Tag: UK book market
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 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 MoreUK – Mills & Boon launches new “spicy”’ Afterglow imprint to attract BookTok romance readers
by Mark Williams | Dec 20, 2023 | Europe, UK | 0 |
Mills & Boon sells a romance fiction book in the UK every ten seconds, but has yet to get...
Read More“PRH UK confirms 38 roles to go.” Memo to PRH employees: You’d be better off at Simon & Schuster
by Mark Williams | Dec 16, 2023 | UK | 0 |
I wonder how many job losses – no, sorry, role eliminations – it will take in total to...
Read More“If I’m guilty of copying and pasting, then I’m really proud of that.” UK Shadow Chancellor says plagiarism is just fine
by Mark Williams | Oct 30, 2023 | UK | 0 |
No need to bother with publisher due diligence at the time of publication. Let’s just chuck...
Read MoreBookBeat Finland hits 300,000 subscribers as new opportunities open up for BookBeat UK
by Mark Williams | Oct 15, 2023 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Finland, UK | 0 |
Good luck with that, Niclas, given that the UK Society of Authors has already launched an attack...
Read MoreUK -Spiralling costs and the impact of Brexit hit indie publishers as Sandstone collapses
by Mark Williams | Jul 29, 2023 | UK | 0 |
An overall bleak picture of the UK independent publishing scene. “Independent publishers in...
Read MoreUK sees “best-ever” half-year print revenues, but don’t get too excited. Actual sales were down
by Mark Williams | Jul 23, 2023 | UK | 0 |
Maybe it wasn’t such a good six months after all. UK sees “best-ever” half-year...
Read MoreBritish publishers hailing ‘excellent growth’ of English language exports to Europe thanks to BookTok are sleepwalking into disaster
by Mark Williams | Jun 26, 2023 | Big Bad Wolf sale, Europe, Global Publishing, TikTok, UK | 0 |
It’s not too late for publishers to redeem something from the short-term cash-grab and...
Read MoreBritain has a new vision – a Creative Industries Sector Vision. Books and publishing aren’t really part of it
by Mark Williams | Jun 26, 2023 | UK | 0 |
A lone quote from Stephen King, that well known British cultural icon, was another acknowledgement...
Read More“We are not a computer algorithm.” UK Booksellers protest publishers linking to Amazon during almost-over IBW
by Mark Williams | Jun 23, 2023 | bookstores, Retailer News, UK | 0 |
The letter is being emailed to publishers today, June 23 – one day before Independent...
Read MoreJames Daunt needs to stop playing ebook games and spin off Nook
by Mark Williams | May 25, 2023 | UK, USA | 0 |
But this is James Daunt, who had made inconsistency an art form (and lousy grammar too- the...
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