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. How dire is the looming book bottleneck? Has Amazon changed how literature is written? What happened to mid-size…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, coronavirus, COVID-19, distribution, foreign languages, foreign-language characters, independent publishers, literary fiction, mid-size publishers, pandemic, production, science writing, supply chain, supply chain issues
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. Have print ARCs become a hot commodity? What can platforms like Substack offer publishers and authors? How is…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. Can online orders keep bookstores afloat if those bookstores can’t restock? Could the pandemic aid a publishing crackdown? What’s keeping…Continue Reading
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Tagged censorship, ComicHub, copyright, digital sales, distribution, Internet Archive, National Emergency Library, online orders, publishing restrictions, reading, Reading habits, supply chain
A recent article in The Telegraph calls 2015 “the year Amazon delivered on its founder’s vision.” The reporter James Titcomb explains that in 2015 Amazon grew to double its share price, finally became profitable, and is now “almost untouchable as an online retailer” due to its streamlined delivery service. While it’s been a good year…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, anti-trust, Apple, Audible, Bloomberg Google, Britain, competition, distribution, Double Irish, ebooks, EU Data Protection Reform, European Commission, European Union, Facebook, Federal Cartel Office, German Publishers and Booksellers Association, Germany, Italy, iTunes, James Titcomb, Poland, Spain, Starbucks, strike, The New York Times, The Telegraph, Verdi, warehouse
While 2011 shouted challenges of the digital “Wild West,” 2012 was a year where players tackled new issues in the digital frontier, along with figuring out exactly what role publishers would – and should — take moving forward. In many ways, 2012 can be considered a year where relationships became key: from the big merger possibilities…Continue Reading
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Tagged 2013, Amazon, Big 6, Brendan Cahill, distribution, Don Linn, EL James, Fifty Shades of Grey, industry, INscribe, Larry Norton, merger, NatureShare, publishing, trendSpotting, University of Chicago, Year of the Plumbers
Peter Hildick-Smith is Founder and President of the Codex Group. 2009 will be remembered as the beginning of the digital tipping point for book publishing, the year our industry took its turn as the last of the major media to enter the digital transition, following in the highly challenged footsteps of the music, newspaper, magazine,…Continue Reading
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Tagged AmazonEncore, B&N Recommends, Barnes & Noble, Cayla Kluver, Codex Group, distribution, fiction, Katherine Howe, Kindle, Legacy, Peter Hildick-Smith, windowing
Though nobody’s immune to the bad economy, distributors haven’t taken as much of a hit as other groups in publishing this year. “It’s easier in this economy to be working with a large distribution group,” says Eugenia Pakalik, Director of Sales and Marketing Distribution Services at Norton. The ideal IPM client, says Jane Graf, Director…Continue Reading
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Tagged Consortium, distribution, ebooks, Eugenia Pakalik, Greenleaf Book Group, International Publishers Marketing, iPhone, IPM, Jane Graf, Joe Bulger, Kindle, Kristen Sears, Marianne Bohr, Mobipocket, National Book Network, NBN, netLibrary, Norton, Perseus, Perseus Book Group, PGW, sales, Simon & Schuster, Sony, Sony Reader, zinio
Since we last checked in with distributors, in June 2007, there are positive changes for the little guys. This year, micropress distribution experienced turbulence: The Sarasota, Florida–based BookWorld closed in late September 2007 without notifying its 104 clients. In January 2008, National Book Network (NBN) put its micropress sister company Biblio Distribution up for sale….Continue Reading
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Tagged AtlasBooks, Biblio Distribution, BookMasters, BookWorld, clients, Constellation, Dave Wurster, distribution, distributors, International Publishers Marketing, IPM, Jane Graf, Jeff Abraham, Marianne Bohr, National Book Network, NBN, PGW, Publishers Group West, Random House Publisher Services, Richard Freese, Susan Reich