US publisher Rowman & Littlefield aims for international digital growth
Put simply digital opens up markets where a traditional print-focussed strategy, with all the...
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Wiley soars thanks to “Record research output and content consumption, robust online enrolment growth, and broad digital courseware adoption”
The pandemic is accelerating trends including a global increase in the demand to publish and...
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Quote Unquote: “Combined ebook and print book sales are expected to be one of the highest-volume years in NPD BookScan history” – Kristen McLean
A key point of interest here being the reference to ebooks, a format that, in recent years...
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Warner Bros. says it will send ALL its 2021 releases to a streaming service at same time as to cinemas. Book publishers – wake up and smell the coffee
This is just one more digital genie that, once out of the bottle, is not going to go back in. HBO...
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Book Expo America is shuttered, leaving the world’s biggest book market with no trade show. Few tears will be shed
The pandemic took away the last of the emperor’s clothes, at no time more clearly than when...
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“Print AND digital, not print OR digital.” – Follett, Baker & Taylor
Ebooks and digital solutions are an ‘and’ to the print book. There are a number of schools,...
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“I absolutely love Nook, and I think my predecessors had fallen out of love with it. I’m a champion of digital books and digital book retailing” – Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt
Daunt continued selling epub ebooks in the Waterstone’s ebook store while simultaneously inviting...
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Spotify’s move into audiobooks is a seismic shift in the publishing landscape, but the ripples will take time to be felt
Can Spotify dominate the audiobook scene in the same way it has music? No is the simple answer....
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Quote Unquote: “The strongest digital sales performance in years” – HarperCollins. “Robust growth in digital formats” – Hachette
HarperCollins and Hachette digital safety nets kick in. HarperCollins sees 39% of H2 revenue from...
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Quote Unquote: “There were significant benefits to meeting virtually” – American Booksellers Association
When any event excludes more than it can accommodate then much more is lost than just chance...
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Pearson and Scholastic results – trade up and digital up but overall Covid-19 impact is hurting
At TNPS the focus is on international publishing, but we occasionally offer perspectives on the US...
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StreetLib expands its distribution with 4 new partners and adds audiobook distribution to Scribd
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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