AAP Reported Ebook Sales fell 12.6%. Unreported Ebook Sales Rose A Minimum of 11.2%
Total sales when all are included will be higher still. So Why.T.F. was Seth Godin ranting about declining book sales and blaming AI?
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Tag: US book market
Spotify helps HarperCollins bounce back after a challenging year. HC keeps quiet about AI
Given HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp is investing heavily in AI, we can therefore reasonably assume HarperCollins is going down that same route, but quietly.
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USA – Good news from the AAP that only gets better when the invisible trade is included
What we do know, by simply looking at the digital charts, is that APub shifts huge numbers of ebooks uncounted by the AAP, and we also know Amazon pays out serious money every month to self-publishers using its Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service.
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2024 on target to clock $1.2 billion in invisible ebook revenues as AAP reports decline
The total sum paid out to self-publishers and small presses so far this year is $205.8 million, putting ebook unlimited subscription service Kindle Unlimited on target to pay out $620m in royalties in 2024.
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No, the “real” Middle Grade reading crisis has nothing to do with kids having or not having phones
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?
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PW’s Jim Milliott gets Lifetime Achievement Award
For those of us outside the US, Publishers Weekly has been our indispensable window on American...
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USA – 2024 could be a very active year for acquisitions
“Interviews with publishers and dealmakers suggest that 2024 could be a very active year for...
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USA – sluggish sales, “Holidays” hopes, and cold realities
Milliott’s latest report on the struggling US print market for PW is one of so many it would...
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USA – Bookstore Sales Fell 17% in August. Ebooks fell, or rose, depending on where you look.
It is not clear just how much college books shifting to digital are contributing to the 17% August...
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August print sales down 7% as US market slows. Expect the KU ebook pay-out to be up 10% by comparison
But what mainstream publishers will have preferred not to hear was that romance sales were way...
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H1 ebook revenue down says AAP as it omits well over a quarter billion dollars in uncounted ebook spend
The Kindle Unlimited pot pay-out for self-published authors’ ebooks is on target to exceed...
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US – print book sales continue to decline. So where is the #BookTok boom the industry loves to get so excited about?
And yet book sales are down. Meaning a) that 4.176 billion of those BookTok views resulted in no...
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