Category: UK
Edinburgh University Press – 68% profit in 2021 driven by “tremendous growth” (49%) in ebook sales
We were well-placed to respond to (lockdown), making all our books simultaneously available in...
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Lessons for book publishers as retro railway magazines gather steam with unlimited subscription
Peco launched its Railways Modeller backlist in its entirety on October 13 2021, and saw an...
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Pandemic Y3’s first major book fair casualty is Brussels. What hope for London and Bologna?
The now cancelled Brussels event was twelve weeks away. Bologna is 14 weeks away. London is 16...
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UK audiobook revenue up 71% on 2019. Ebooks up 10%. Consumer print up 6%. Children’s digital up 26%. Digital consumer non-fiction up 30%
Given both Findaway and Audiobooks.com impact on the UK market; and given Spotify is already a...
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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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Bloomsbury acquires video streaming service, saying “streaming is a core strand in our strategic growth plans”
“Streaming has been gaining considerable institutional traction and, as a logical outcome of...
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Amazon’s inexorable shift to unlimited subscription is creeping up on complacent publishers looking the other way
The slippery slope has been greased. Audible Plus US and UK are going to outperform the regular...
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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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“A blended field … Digital now part of our day-to-day thinking and planning” – Philip Jones, The Bookseller
Online sales are the enemy, and those readers who erred from the true path of righteousness and...
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As the print-digital gap narrows to just £0.4 billion, UK Publishers Association declares ebooks the new Voldermort: The format that shall not be named
Per Lotinga’s theory, with all the extra time to binge on Netflix and Disney Plus, play games on...
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London Book Fair won’t refund exhibitors this year as it admits defeat and pivots to digital. Will publishers ever trust LBF again?
In other words, we haven’t a clue yet what we’ll be doing, because we are only doing this digital...
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Bologna drops in-person event. Strengthens its digital fair. LBF keeps publishers guessing
One has to wonder if the London Book Fair as we know it even has a future, or if, like it’s US...
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