Bookstore UK, the antidote to Amazon, delivered $2.3 million to UK indie bookstores in its first year
The imminent pandemic winter may or may not be as bad as last year, but it will be bad, and...
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Category: Print
“May Bookstore Sales Jumped 130%.” “May Bookstore Sales Down 9.2%.” US Publishing’s Parallel Narratives
“As an industry we need to come to terms with the new reality – the “new normal” as we liked...
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Urban Publishing Myths: Bookstore closures hurt frontlist sales
Seriously? It’s taken a pandemic to make publishers realise that marketing can be done online? No...
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Bookwire Brazil’s Bok2 acquisition reflects POD’s growing role in the global book markets that publishers should be studying carefully
POD is an exciting prospect for the global book markets and will come into its own in this coming...
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USA’s AAP numbers shows print and digital formats all doing well, but the digital numbers only tell a partial story
And then there’s ebooks, where we can safely say the AAP numbers are at best indicative, but miss...
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In June 2020 half the NY Times paperback bestseller list came from Ingram’s print on demand service – Mike Shatzkin
POD is an exciting prospect for the global book markets and will come into its own in this coming...
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“Non-essential” UK bookstore retail faces an existential challenge as 2021 lockdown bites
Many publishers will be watching their retail accounts closely this lockdown and wondering at what...
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Bulgaria will cut its VAT rate on books and ebooks from 20% to 9% on July 1. But only for 6 months
While many EU countries have taken the 2018 VAT harmonization ruling to reduce the tax on ebooks...
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Bookstore re-openings promise to be tortuous as these examples from Germany and USA show
In various parts of the world lockdown is slowly being eased, and as a low-risk business,...
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Ireland’s postal service offers lifeline to print books during the pandemic with a promo delivery deal to ship up to 10 kg (22 lb) of books
Set aside for a moment the moral dilemma of whether it is okay to shut bookstores to keep people...
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Publishers Weekly launches #BooksAreEssential social media campaign to support the industry. But essential to who?
In times of crisis we often have to make difficult choices, redefine our priorities, and make...
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IngramSpark introduces new quality rules for self-published authors, but many of the new guidelines are unduly subjective
Intent on preserving its reputation for quality, IngramSpark, the print-on-demand arm of Ingram...
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