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The dam has been breached! Amazon’s Audible launches an unlimited audiobook subscription service in Spain. How long now before Audible rolls out the model in the US?

by Mark Williams | Sep 22, 2020 | Amazon, Audible, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Publishing Controversies, Spain, The global book market | 4 |

As and when Amazon decides that Audible shall become an unlimited audiobook subscription service...

Video game becomes part of Poland’s official school reading list as the definition of books and reading blurs

by Mark Williams | Jun 19, 2020 | Digital-Reading Initiatives, Education Publishing, Europe, Global Publishing, Publishing Controversies, Publishing News | 0 |

For the purists among us who think that a book isn’t a book unless it was written by hand with a...

Lockdown exposes the deep flaws in Data Guy’s Bookstat guessing game

by Mark Williams | May 10, 2020 | Ebooks, Publishing Controversies, UK | 1 |

From the very first Author Earnings Report the efforts of the web-scraping expert known as Data...

Simon & Schuster Q1 revenue up 4%, driven by 16% growth in ebook and audiobook sales. Audio defies the no-commuters-equals-no-audiobook-sales narrative

by Mark Williams | May 9, 2020 | Audiobooks, bookstores, Coronavirus, Ebooks, Publishing Controversies | 0 |

As part of ViacomCBS the Simon & Schuster management, like HarperCollins, understands the...

Mapping the new normal: USA’s Books-A-Million re-opens bookstores with curbside pick-up, staff in PPE, telephone experts, and cosmetic cases in beautiful floral prints

by Mark Williams | May 8, 2020 | bookstores, Coronavirus, Publishing Controversies, USA | 0 |

America’s second-largest bookstore chain, Books-A-Million, is readying for Mother’s...

“Just. &%$*@. Stop.” Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn tells the coronavirus book scammers where they can stuff their “snake-oil quackery, conspiracy theories, and raw disinformation”

by Mark Williams | Apr 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, Ebooks, Global Publishing, Kobo, Publishing Controversies | 0 |

When it comes to book scams, digital makes it easy for pretty much anyone anywhere to get in on...

Publishers Weekly launches #BooksAreEssential social media campaign to support the industry. But essential to who?

by Mark Williams | Apr 21, 2020 | bookstores, Coronavirus, Ebooks, Print, Publishing Controversies, USA | 4 |

In times of crisis we often have to make difficult choices, redefine our priorities, and make...

Data Guy’s Bookstat reins in its guesses on Hachette titles, but still hundreds out either way

by Mark Williams | Apr 3, 2020 | Ebooks, Europe, Publishing Controversies, UK | 1 |

Having been out by many thousands in recent weeks, Data Guy’s Bookstat, which purports to...

Data Guy’s Bookstat over-guesses UK ebook sales by 14,000 units for 5 of the top 10, say two publishers with the real numbers

by Mark Williams | Mar 27, 2020 | Ebooks, Publishing Controversies, UK | 0 |

Once again the UK’s The Bookseller has reproduced the Bookstat ebook bestsellers top ten...

Digital Book World bans Macmillan from September DBW conference as US libraries dispute escalates

by Mark Williams | Jan 29, 2020 | Digital Libraries, Ebooks, North America, Publishing Controversies, USA | 0 |

Here at TNPS I’ve not covered the Macmillan dispute with libraries in any depth, as the...

Gaming the system pays… on Amazon UK. Over 30% of the Amazon UK Top 100 Kindle ebooks are in breach of Amazon rules and BIC guidelines. Including Amazon’s own titles

by Mark Williams | Oct 29, 2019 | Amazon, Ebooks, Publishing Controversies, UK | 2 |

Back in March 2018 the BIC called on UK publishers not to game the system by abusing metadata....

Déjà vu. Once again self-published authors are not welcome at the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award

by Mark Williams | Oct 23, 2019 | Awards, Publishing Controversies, UK | 0 |

Last year the Wall Street Journal noted how Jeff Bezos had proudly told us how thousands of...

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The dam has been breached! Amazon’s Audible launches an unlimited audiobook subscription service in Spain. How long now before Audible rolls out the model in the US?

Video game becomes part of Poland’s official school reading list as the definition of books and reading blurs

Lockdown exposes the deep flaws in Data Guy’s Bookstat guessing game

Simon & Schuster Q1 revenue up 4%, driven by 16% growth in ebook and audiobook sales. Audio defies the no-commuters-equals-no-audiobook-sales narrative

Mapping the new normal: USA’s Books-A-Million re-opens bookstores with curbside pick-up, staff in PPE, telephone experts, and cosmetic cases in beautiful floral prints

“Just. &%$*@. Stop.” Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn tells the coronavirus book scammers where they can stuff their “snake-oil quackery, conspiracy theories, and raw disinformation”

Publishers Weekly launches #BooksAreEssential social media campaign to support the industry. But essential to who?

Data Guy’s Bookstat reins in its guesses on Hachette titles, but still hundreds out either way

Data Guy’s Bookstat over-guesses UK ebook sales by 14,000 units for 5 of the top 10, say two publishers with the real numbers

Digital Book World bans Macmillan from September DBW conference as US libraries dispute escalates

Gaming the system pays… on Amazon UK. Over 30% of the Amazon UK Top 100 Kindle ebooks are in breach of Amazon rules and BIC guidelines. Including Amazon’s own titles

Déjà vu. Once again self-published authors are not welcome at the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award

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