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. A Nielsen study in the UK showed that ebook sales are down and print sales are rising. What does the…Continue Reading
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Comics and graphic novels have been having a good run lately. Comichron and ICv2 – respectively, a database and journal covering the industry – estimate that, in 2015, total domestic sales reached a record of $1.03 billion. In their joint report, they note that in 2015, print sales accounted for a staggering $940 million, with…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. If a book is deemed “readable,” is that a good thing? Can historical fiction help readers make sense of today’s…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. Could blockchain bounties help fight ebook piracy? What will the W3C/IDPF merger mean for ebook technology? Did agency pricing hold…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement th%.e 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. Why do physical books have staying power? A new study from the UK shows that reading print books slows down…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. George Saunders’ new book Lincoln in the Bardo requires a whole new kind of audiobook. In 2016, forty-nine library systems…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’s more important: content or packaging? Should libraries pay writers when an ebook is checked out? July 2016 data shows that…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 guerilla marketing save bookstores? What does effective backend metadata look like? Do small presses take more risks than larger…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 the digital age, what is the lifespan of paper? Amazon, originally “the world’s biggest bookstore,” is pushing into almost every…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. Elections affect the book business in a surprisingly predictable way. How important is it to create a new digital reading…Continue Reading