Everyone’s looking for silver linings in their COVID-19 playbooks, and for publishers – along with their distributors and wholesalers – the answer is, paradoxically, print. In the olden, pre-pandemic days when most books were printed offset, digital files were stored in case a book needed to be reprinted quickly. But this March, that dynamic was…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Does Authors United have an argument for an antitrust case against Amazon? How can map publishers find success in a…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Should literary magazines stop charging writers to submit their work? What are the positives and negatives of a single epub workflow?…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. International Publishers created an infographic for World Book Day highlighting children’s reading habits. Bookwire predicts that digital sales in Latin America will…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. What do changing preferences in reading print or digital mean for the industry? Is discoverability still a problem when it…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. In what ways can the video game and publishing industries collaborate? Authors see value in self-publishing audiobooks. How can university presses…Continue Reading
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