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 does Scribd’s audiobook launch mean for Audible? Is the international rights market expanding for children’s books? Should ebooks…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adobe, Audible, Children's book publishing, digital watermarking, DRM, ebooks, libraries, non-English, Scribd, social, survey
Codex’s recent reader poll shows that the Amazon-Hachette contract negotiations may be having an impact on the way the average consumer purchases books. According to Codex, 39% of their respondents are aware of the ongoing negotiations between Amazon and Hachette, and there has been a decline in consumers buying books from Amazon at a rate…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon-Hachette negotiations, Apple's iBookstore, ARCs, Barnes & Noble, book buying, Codex, Comps, Direct Sales, Google Play Bookstore, Hachette, IndieBound, Kobo, Library, Netgalley, publishing, Publishing Professionals, Reader Pool, survey, Survey results
Here at Market Partners International, we often find ourselves inundated by books to read– from galleys and library rentals to books we’ve bought online or in stores. Looking at our reading queues and seeing the myriad places we get our books from, we started wondering: how do other people in the publishing industry get their…Continue Reading
For more results from this survey, check out Book-Giving Etiquette Guide and I Love You, Keith Richards. “My siblings assume that every book I get is free, so they expect books AND a ‘real present.’” “Any time I give a book, I fear it will be assumed that I did not pay for it, so…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookpeople, books, Borders, Essential New York Times Cookbook, gift cards, gifts, Greenlight Bookstore, iPad, Kansha, Kindle, Kobo, McNally Jackson, Nook, One Big Table, Posman Books, presents, publishing, Salted, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Sony Reader, Southern Pies, St. Marks Bookshop, survey, The Gourmet Cookie Book, Three Lives, Zwilling J. A. Henckels Complete Book of Knife Skills
If you’re a book publishing professional, you can take the Gilbane Group’s new survey: http://gilbane.com/blog/2010/04/now_live_the_gilbane_groups_web-based_blueprint_survey_for_book_publishing_professionals.html The survey “seeks to gain detailed information about what is really happening among the full spectrum of book publishers related to ebook and digital publishing efforts, and will identify the “pain points” and barriers encountered by book publishers when it…Continue Reading
They’re not yet ubiquitous on the subway. And the “paperless office” is still a dream at this point. Our second annual industry survey of industry professionals found that 70% of respondents had never read an e-book. It’s unlikely that entry-level employees will receive shiny new Sony Readers with their company handbooks any time soon. Still,…Continue Reading
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Tagged agents, Amazon, Borders, carbon footprint, Carolyn Pittis, Cathy Goldsmith, e-readers, ebooks, Golden Books, Hachette, HarperCollins, iPhone, James Lichtenberg, Kindle, Levine Greenberg, Lightspeed, Macmillan, manuscripts, paperless office, Penguin, Perseus, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Sony Reader, survey, Victoria Skurnick, wireless
It’s Friday, and it’s been a hard week. If you’re going to happy hour with a publishing crowd after work today, expect lots of people to order red wine–the drink of choice for 35.8% of respondents. 16.7% prefer white. One respondent just loves “good delicious wine.” 5.3% go for vodka tonics, and 3.5% like Bud…Continue Reading
Want to get into publishing? A lot of people say it’s all about who you know–and the results of our survey support that belief. 35.5% of respondents heard about their current job via word of mouth. 9.6% found their position on the job board of a Web site like Publishers Marketplace, and 6% were recruited….Continue Reading
It’s polling season, and PT’s not exempt! This year, 385 people who work in publishing took our survey; 86.5% completed it. The largest group of respondents were literary agents (26.8%), while the majority of respondents at publishing houses work in editorial (40.6%), followed by rights (6.3%) and sales (5.7%). 10% are 22–27, 25% are 28–35,…Continue Reading
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