Category: Europe
As a new lockdown gets under way in France, bookstores once again ask to be treated as essential services
Lire, c’est vivre – reading is living – should not become reading carries a strong risk of dying...
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It’s been 6 years since Amazon last launched a Kindle store. Today Amazon launches in Sweden – without a Kindle store
Amazon: “Our goal is to have every book, ever published, in any language available for Kindle...
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Bloomsbury profits soar 60% thanks to “significantly higher” online and ebook sales. Just how indispensable are bookstores to publishers?
For bricks & mortar booksellers that emerge from the pandemic in one piece perhaps the biggest...
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Malta Book Festival is online in November
The Malta Book Festival typically attracts 40,000 visitors, equivalent to almost 10% of the...
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In France in 2019 digital accounted for just 8.7% of the book market
There’s no disputing that, with internet penetration at 92%, amounting to 60 million people...
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Storytel Belgium set to launch October 28, with Dutch-language stand-up comedy and audiobooks. French-speakers will have to wait
Storytel’s 21st market is a country of 11.5 million people where only 60% of the population speak...
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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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Amazon Sweden to launch in November?
All the indications are Amazon Sweden will launch next month, and print books will be part of it....
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“Let there be more films based on books by contemporary Ukrainian authors”
“It’s great that we have so much literature spanning different genres. Let there be more...
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Ten years after self-publishing took off in the UK, The Bookseller still excludes indie authors from its awards
The Bookseller 2012: “For years the publishing industry has ignored self-publishing. The...
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Sweden sees book sales rise by 7.4% value and 20% volume this year, led by digital subscription (+32%). Pre-Christmas, 60% of consumption is now digital
Sölve Dahlgren: “Can regular sales channels make up their losses and thereby increase book sales...
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Sweden’s Gothenburg Book Fair pulls in 373,000 virtual visitors in prime time and still has 3 months of viewing to come – the digital book fair is here to stay
“We see that the virtual book fair can create added value for both authors, publishers and other...
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