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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Hedge-fund KKR buys Simon & Schuster. A Gordon Gekko moment or a digital beacon of hope?
KKR CEO Pete Stavros will be listening carefully to Richard Sarnoff, and looking closely at what...
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KKR now likely to buy S&S for 27% less than PRH tried to pay. But are hedge-funds good for the industry?
As a one-off acquisition, the Simon & Schuster deal is not deeply worrying, but the broader...
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US – “Print Books Take a Tumble.”
Nothing too worrying, but also nothing to celebrate . Jim Milliot’s latest look at the US...
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US – Penguin Random House job eliminations show just how redundant was former PRH CEO Markus Dohle’s Sharjah address in May
Beyond the of course painful individual losses is the stark reality that the post-pandemic New...
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April US publishing numbers tell a selective story
In April the pot pay-out to indie authors and small presses for ebooks downloaded via the Kindle...
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James Daunt needs to stop playing ebook games and spin off Nook
But this is James Daunt, who had made inconsistency an art form (and lousy grammar too- the...
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The Emperor’s Old Clothes: Publishing’s Supply Chain Needs an Upgrade
O’Leary has much more to say, and shows where other countries are ahead of the game. Canada,...
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US – AAP-reported trade revenues up 3.1% in January. Ebooks up 3.7%. Unreported Kindle Unlimited pay-out up 5.7% – over half the AAP total
If we add the KU pay-out to the AAP figure we have an ebook market value for January of $132.9...
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Uncounted by the APA, Nielsen et al, Kindle Unlimited paid out over a half billion dollars in 2022 – mostly to self-publishers
That’s up $72 million on 2021, at a time when the preferred mainstream publishing narrative is...
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