OverDrive’s half billion digital books downloads blows a hole in the narrative of stagnating consumer interest in ebooks
“Equity of access being a key point here, and one that ultimately is at the centre of the...
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AAP reports October ebook REVENUE worth $84 million. For the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $39.8 million in ROYALTIES. Just how big is the real ebook market no-one wants to talk about?
Per the AAP, tracked ebook sales REVENUE from January through October 2021 amounted to $892.5...
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As German-owned PRH is trying to spend $2 billion on S&S, PRH CEO calls out Swedish “Big Bucks flowing into the US publishing industry”
And Dohle further asserts PRH is “channel agnostic” even as it has pulled all PRH...
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TNPS SPECIAL REPORT – Seismic Shifts 1: Storytel enters the English-language markets (Analysis)
Tellander is under no illusion that he must, for the immediate future, work with the credit system...
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Start the Day Global – essential industry reading from around the world
As the monsoon season draws to a close here in West Africa hopes rise that TNPS can get back on...
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Hachette acquisition of Workman is a Pandemic-era consolidation tale where backlist is the key
Pre-2020 a publishers’ backlist wouldn’t have been a selling point, and backlist not a keyword a...
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Pearson+ subscription app “brings e-books in line with how students buy and experience the rest of their content”. Most other publishers look away
But as the subscription screws tighten, so publishers will have to rethink their resistance to...
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Byju’s acquires children’s reading platform Epic for $500 million in another seismic shift in the publishing landscape
Overseas capital continues to flood the North America publishing market, entering key digital...
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Scribd’s likely $1 billion IPO valuation shows how far US digital books subscription lags behind global rivals
The issue is not if, but when publishers embrace subscription wholesale, and which players they...
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“May Bookstore Sales Jumped 130%.” “May Bookstore Sales Down 9.2%.” US Publishing’s Parallel Narratives
“As an industry we need to come to terms with the new reality – the “new normal” as we liked...
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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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US audiobook consumption in 2020 rose 12% rise. How much more if unlimited subscription was an option?
One wonders just how many of the publishing industry’s decision makers that willfully object to...
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