A prospective Bible shortage drives home the unhealthy reliance of the US...
Leaving aside any debate about the rights and wrongs of the US-China trade dispute and tariffs being imposed by both sides, the dispute has brought to the fore the unhealthy reliance of US publishers...
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Pearson to phase out print textbooks in US as digital gathers momentum
As one of the world’s largest education publishing companies, the news that Pearson is to phase out printed textbooks in its core US market is a serious blow to the “screen fatigue” brigade’s efforts...
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As OverDrive’s Libby partners with Apple’s CarPlay, how long before...
Thanks to a deal between Apple and Rakuten-OverDrive, the digital library app Libby is now compatible with Apple’s CarPlay in-car entertainment system. According to OverDrive the Libby app is now...
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Washington National Book Festival poster reveal
The Library of Congress National Book Festival 2019 has been revealed, and it’s a stunning feast of geometry around an open book. Marian Bantjes is a designer, illustrator, typographer and writer and...
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Start The Day Global with a Muslim superhero; Trinidad & Tobago’s Carifesta;...
Marvel has confirmed a Muslim superhero named Ms Marvel – Pakistani-American teenager Kamala Khan – will star in a live-action series on Disney+. Very few details available right now, and one can only...
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“People who buy audiobooks buy more print books than people who don’t buy...
Variety this week carries the news that Amazon’s Audible is hiring top Hollywood names to narrate its original audiobooks. Which is fair enough given this is a Hollywood story. What’s a little...
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US-based self-publishing aggregator PublishDrive changes payment model for...
Originating from Hungary, now based in the US, PublishDrive is the youngest of the new breed of aggregators born of the digital self-publishing revolution, offering a pay-as-you-sell service for...
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Scholastic adds its children’s and YA list to the OverDrive digital library...
Scholastic has boosted Rakuten OverDrive’s schools ebook catalogue with Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man and a host of other bestselling titles including perennial classics like RL Stine’s Goosebumps, and series...
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NetGalley Advanced arrives in UK, France and Germany nine months after US launch
When it comes to getting new books noticed in the digital age, advance copies sent out to trusted influencers are essential. NetGalley has been in the business of connecting over 300 publishers’ new...
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US bookstore sales decline 10% in August, but do the numbers reflect a drift...
Preliminary figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate sales of printed books from physical bookstores “tumbled” (PW) 10.3% in August compared to 2018, with revenue down to $1.23 million,...
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The new Harry Potter subscription service will set you back $75 to get the...
Earlier this month, buried in the deluge of news from Frankfurt, a new Harry Potter digital subscription service was announced. Initially limited to the US and UK, the subscription will set you back...
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Publishers Weekly’s BookLife launches paid reviews for self-publishing authors
If you are a self-published author and don’t mind waiting 4-6 weeks, and handing over some cash, you can now get a professionally written public-facing review from the US-based trade journal...
View ArticleThree months jail for not returning a library book. EC horror comics....
Thanks to Instagram, poetry has been given a new lease of life, with the beauty of poetry suddenly discoverable to millions of people who have probably never set foot inside a bookstore even for a...
View ArticleAmazon bookstores embrace spine-out shelf-stacking. Indigo sales fall again....
Some Amazon critics may have been excited by the opening of Nate Hoffelder’s recent post in The Digital Reader saying Amazon had shuttered five of its retail stores, but it turns out that was just for...
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Smashwords launches “presales” – not to be confused with pre-orders – and for...
In the battle to stand out in the ever more competitive US indie author aggregator arena the key players are constantly innovating with new ways of grabbing author attention and offering added value....
View ArticlePRK UK’s new centralised rights; B&N Education’s poor quarter; Hachette UK’s...
A quick glance at some top publishing stories from the industry trade journals. PRH UK unveils centralised rights restructure The Bookseller reports that Penguin Random House UK, in an effort to...
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USA’s global digital books subscription service Scribd sees revenue rise 25%...
Despite many publishers deliberately avoiding the all-you-can-eat digital books subscription model, the US-based service Scribd is set to record revenue of over $100 million this year, which goes some...
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Rakuten ditches OverDrive. Acquired by equity firm KKR. Should Kobo be nervous?
When it comes to hiding bad news, Christmas Day must come high on the list of best times to choose. In fairness, the release date and time for the press release was actually 6.30 PM on Christmas Eve,...
View ArticleUS Publishers v Amazon’s Audible law suit close to resolution?
It seems not all of western publishing has been on hold over the Christmas-New Year break. Publishers Lunch reports that Audible’s Attorney Emily Reisbaum was on December 27 firing off a letter to the...
View ArticleThe TNPS Festive Season Weeks in Review
For those who didn’t get the chance to open any or all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a summary of the key stories covered in the past two weeks as western publishing took its annual...
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