Publishing Trends 2005

December 2005

• Synergy Scores: Magazine and Book Publishers Ramp Up Those Multi-Media Platforms
• As You Like It: Custom Publishing’s Double Digit Growth
• ¡Ya Voy! Guadalajara Gears Up
• ABPA Package or Perish
• Int'l Bestsellers: Auf Wiedersehen! Sum's the Word, Luxurious Bejeweled Elephants, Of Butterflies and Men
• Book View

November 2005

• Watch Your Backlist: Publishers and Booksellers Re-Assess Their Backlists, Stocking Deeper, While Printing Less, Plus: Looking Beyond the Shelf
• E-Textbooks: Still Peering Through the Wrong End
• Reporting from the Texas Book Festival
• Int'l Bestsellers: More For Your Messe
• Book View

October 2005

• Marketing Makeover: WOM's The Word as Podcasts, Blogging, Buzz, & Viral Go Mainstream
• New York Times Does Books: All The News that's Fit to Print, and Bind
• Int'l Bestsellers: The Mysterious Dame
• Book View

September 2005: The Audiobook Issue

• Aural Fixation: Audible Braces As MediaBay and Amazon Enter, Growth Continues Across the Board
• Hours of Unabridged Fun In A Big Rig: Audiobooks Hit the Road
• The Digital Library Kicks Into Overdrive
• Int'l Bestsellers: Bienvenidos Audiolibros!
• Book View

August 2005

• Meetings of the Minds: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Publishing Conference, Seminar and Summit
• The Passion of the Geek: Comic Con 2005
• PT's Comic/Graphic Novel Contact Sheet
• Columbia Can Do
• Int'l Bestsellers: So, Do You Su Doku?
• Book View

July 2005

• Bed, Bath, Books & Beyond: Specialty Distributors Dominate Markets Publishers Can't Touch
• Licensing Lysol: Licensing Show 2005
• Translation Nation
• G.R.I.P.ped from the Headlines
• www.who-looks-at-books-online-anyway.com
• Int'l Bestsellers: Running For Cover
• Book View

June 2005

• The Warehouse Boogie-Woogie: Distributors Reshuffle the Deck - Signing Up Clients As Publishers Proliferate, Ingram Jumps in as Baker & Taylor Gets Out
• The Absolutely, Assuredly, I Promise You, Best Book Ever
• Hold on to Your Freedom Fries, Paris Fait Son Retour
• Int'l Bestsellers: The Iran-Coelho Affair
• Book View

May 2005

• Crossing Over: Lines between Christian and Trade Markets continue to Blur with Growth on all Fronts
• Book View
• The Other Book Club : "Publishers need a marketing slush fund for their backlist titles"
• Looking out for the Little guy
• Voices from the Edge : PEN Draws,Droves, Caruso in Siberia Sie ist ein Berliner
• More BC at BEA
• RBTE : The Traditionalists

April 2005

• Talking Grapefruits, Thinking Grisham : Gift cards Break Boundaries and Emerge as the New Consumer Currency of Choice
• Book View
• Don't Right Them Off Yet
• School of Hard Knocks
• Salon du Vivre : Salon du Livre celebrates 25 Years

March 2005

• Join the Club : Book Clubs Reinvent the Digital Wheel
• Book View
• Politics and Prose
• Biting the Publisher that Feeds you
• History and Hysteria
• ToyFair 2005: Bringing Yoga and Credit Card Debt to Under 3 set

February 2005

• Bewildering BISAC: Publishers Pressured to Use Coding System Despite its Many Flaws
• Book View
• Ink Slingers Up the Ante
• Hard Habits to Break : Cravings of a Self-Help Author, Imaginary Friends in France,Rated-R in Taiwan
• `Faction' Seizes Korea
• The World on Christian Shows

January 2005

• Trendspotting
• 2004: Technology Boom Redux