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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Category: UK
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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UK: Scotland’s John O’Groats Book Festival goes online this year as England’s London Book Fair dithers
“Other book festivals have done similar in going digital. The organisers of the Islay Book...
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Déjà vu as London Book Fair descends into farce for second year running. Time to put 2021 on hold, ditch Reed Exhibitions, and think about the New Normal
LBF21 might just manage to hobble forward this summer, but the right thing to do is to put it out...
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UK: 257 m. print books sold, 95 m. ebooks sold, 23 m. audiobooks sold in 2020, a record year amid bookstore closures
Just maybe deliberately overpriced ebooks will become a thing of the past as publishers examine...
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Thinking the unthinkable: The Bookseller’s Philip Jones finally acknowledges what TNPS has been saying for a year: high street bookshops “are facing an existential challenge”
The biggest reason bricks & mortar bookstores have to expect the continued backing of...
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We have laboured under a “prevailing myth” that publishers needed to move around (to) meet colleagues across the world – Philip Jones
“The importance of these spontaneous conversations that have always been a welcome byproduct of...
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Frankfurt Book Fair October 2021 will be hybrid this year as expected. Meanwhile London, June, leaves us guessing
With the continuing uncertainty about what will and will not be legally permitted in England by...
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