Category: North America
Canada’s publishers face deluge of returns as bookstores re-open after eight weeks lockdown and a 63% drop in sales
Canada’s book publishing trade association Booknet is warning that as bookstores open their doors...
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USA’s Book Expo America finally does the right thing. BEA cancelled until 2021. Promises automatic refunds
We can save until another day the debate over why it took Book Expo America so long to face up to...
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“Ebooks are the heroes of the crisis. Libraries have halted the purchase of physical books and are switching all purchasing to digital” – BISG report on Covid-19’s impact on publishing
Publishers Weekly’s report on the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) video chat (April 9) about the...
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The Big 5 are out of Book Expo America but BEA says the show will go on as a New Yorker dies every 6 minutes from the coronavirus. BEA, end this obscene farce now
As the week ended Hachette joined Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Penguin...
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Industry News Round-Up 26 March 2020
A round-up of key industry news in these challenging times. Apologies if the linked reports for...
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Book Expo America postponed – but only until July. What planet are they on?
As news came in this evening (GMT) that Book Expo America had postponed the May event it seemed...
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Digital Book World bans Macmillan from September DBW conference as US libraries dispute escalates
Here at TNPS I’ve not covered the Macmillan dispute with libraries in any depth, as the...
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Visiting public libraries in the USA is twice as popular as going to the movies, despite record-breaking digital library downloads
With an average 10.5 trips to the library in 2019, the latest Gallup poll tells us library visits...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 12-18
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Amazon’s Audible and US audiobook publishers reach settlement in captions dispute
Not much detail on this story as yet, but it seems Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service,...
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PRK UK's new centralised rights; B&N Education's poor quarter; Hachette UK's Changing the Story Day; PRH UK's Xmas Gift site
A quick glance at some top publishing stories from the industry trade journals. PRH UK unveils...
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Publishers Weekly's BookLife launches paid reviews for self-publishing authors
If you are a self-published author and don’t mind waiting 4-6 weeks, and handing over some cash,...
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