Category: Print
UK – James Daunt isn’t cut out to be a transnational industry tycoon. Waterstones is paying the price
Just maybe, Jim, its time you handed Waterstones management to someone who is actually in the UK...
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“We know just how and where our audience is accessing content in today’s ever-changing landscape.”
Paraphrasing Jessica Cruel’s comment as Markus Dohle might have put it: “We know just...
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UK – Publishers ‘on brink of collapse’ as US-owned UK distributor struggles
Publishers have warned some firms are being driven to “the brink of collapse” by ongoing issues...
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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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July US print book sales down 8.8% in first week. Fortunately Nikki Haley maths do not apply
It’s just a shame much of the industry cannot apply the same reasoned rationale to ebooks,...
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US print sales fall another 6% as the Q1 declines continue into Q2
Perhaps the man with most cause for concern will be James Daunt, the Atlantic-straddling CEO of...
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As print sales plummet 20%, industry says print fatigue is to blame
Imagine for one second that it was ebook sales that had precipitously dropped 20% in the past week...
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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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“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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