Tag: US book market
James Daunt needs to stop playing ebook games and spin off Nook
But this is James Daunt, who had made inconsistency an art form (and lousy grammar too- the...
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The Emperor’s Old Clothes: Publishing’s Supply Chain Needs an Upgrade
O’Leary has much more to say, and shows where other countries are ahead of the game. Canada,...
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US – AAP-reported trade revenues up 3.1% in January. Ebooks up 3.7%. Unreported Kindle Unlimited pay-out up 5.7% – over half the AAP total
If we add the KU pay-out to the AAP figure we have an ebook market value for January of $132.9...
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Uncounted by the APA, Nielsen et al, Kindle Unlimited paid out over a half billion dollars in 2022 – mostly to self-publishers
That’s up $72 million on 2021, at a time when the preferred mainstream publishing narrative is...
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US print sales fell 6.5% in 2022 as “interest in reading” fell
Curious how, when it’s declining ebook numbers that are reported, this rationale is set...
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OverDrive clocked over 500 million downloads in 2022, and it may actually have been 587 million
The important message here is a simple one: consumer interest in ebooks is not declining, no...
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July US print book sales down 8.8% in first week. Fortunately Nikki Haley maths do not apply
It’s just a shame much of the industry cannot apply the same reasoned rationale to ebooks,...
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As print sales plummet 20%, industry says print fatigue is to blame
Imagine for one second that it was ebook sales that had precipitously dropped 20% in the past week...
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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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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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