Category: Ebooks
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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Canada’s De Marque is acquiring 2,000 digital books in the Ukrainian language to meet significant demand
But I have to say that at a broader level it’s a shame it’s taken a war to get Ukraine...
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TNPS values the US trade ebook market at $3.65 billion in 2022, regardless of what the AAP and Nielsen will tell us
That still leaves audio a long, long way to go – another $1.65 billion since you ask – to...
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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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Weeks before the busiest trading period of the year, and without waiting for the results, the Amazon axe continues to swing
The prospect of Amazon following its music route becomes all the stronger as Jassy runs out of...
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The most important event at Frankfurt 2022 is available to watch on video. Kobo, Wattpad and the “dark matter” of publishing
The internet and electricity gods have been in foul mood this past week, but thankfully the most...
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As printing costs soar in Bangladesh, few publishers seem aware there are 130 million people online
The tragedy is many publishers will fail this coming year as print prices for consumers spiral out...
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Kindle Unlimited paid out over $250 million to indie authors in H1 as APA reports total H1 ebook market of $500 million
If we take the APA’s June count and add only the Kindle Unlimited pot pay-out we know of, and...
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Readers prefer “real” books rather than ebooks or audiobooks – writes a renewable pulp and paper manufacturer
Who would want to pay $20 – or even just $10 – for a digital file they will never own...
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OverDrive’s Sora, the reading app for schools, clocks 100 million downloads – 87% ebooks – that the APA won’t have counted
“It’s difficult to quantify what 100 million books looks like — and doubly difficult when the...
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300 million Bengali speakers finally get an ebook store, but no it’s not a world first
Amazon supports five Indian languages for its Amazon India operation (ebooks only, not print or...
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APA’s April StatShot: $84 million ebook revenue. In the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $41 million to indie authors and small presses
Even without knowing the KU and a la carte APub numbers (which we can see from ebook chart...
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