Category: The Future of Publishing
Mapping the New Normal: As HarperCollins, Macmillan and Bonnier lead the Exodus, it’s time for the Frankfurt Book Fair to rethink its focus
The ink was barely dry on the Buchmesse statement announcing a hybrid in-person and virtual event...
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Mapping the New Normal – Bologna Children’s Book Fair doubles its audience by going online at last minute. Imagine what it could achieve if this were fully planned…
While not the first publishing event to be hit, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair was one of the...
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New York Times hits 5 million subscribers and $800 million in digital revenue. Targets 10 million subscribers by 2025. You can’t put the subscription genie back in the bottle
With $800 million in digital revenue last year, the New York Times also topped 5 million...
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The US accounted for less than 42% of Netflix revenue in Q3. Netflix global numbers show the opportunities and challenges ahead for digital books subscription
With Netflix struggling to maintain momentum in the US, where competition is fierce and saturation...
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320,000 visitors. 6,000 copyright agreements. 5G author holograms. Beijing’s 26th Int. Book Fair hailed a success and a gateway to Asia
The fun is over and the reckoning begins. The 26th Beijing International Book Fair was by all...
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Celebrating its first anniversary, Singapore’s mobile reading app Dreame is another example of the millions of invisible global digital readers outside mainstream publishing
“Show Your Girl Power” is the topic of to a writing competition to mark the successful...
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International Publishers Association announces line-up for 2nd IPA Africa Seminar in Nairobi
If last year’s inaugural IPA Africa Seminar in Lagos was a much needed wake-up call to a global...
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Chinese bot translates 300-page book from English to Chinese in 30 seconds with 95% accuracy
This is a post that will send shivers down the spines of translators everywhere. First the bad...
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Bodour Al Qasimi lines up for the IPA presidency 2021. Setzer in January. Global publishing’s prospects just got a whole lot brighter
The International Publishers Association met at Frankfurt this week to appoint the next president...
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Four in ten books sold in Sweden are through a subscription service. But might both print and ebooks be the casualties of the great Scandinavian experiment?
Forty percent of books sold in Sweden are through a subscription service. Total book sales revenue...
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Publishing News Round-Up 7 May 2018
It would be impossible to try cover even a fraction of the publishing news that lands on my e-desk...
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As Netflix approaches the global revenue tipping point, publishers need to sit up and take notice
Netflix has beaten expectations yet again, adding another 7.4 million subscribers January through...
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