A look at the UK book wholesaler Gardners (via ALLi)
Amazon is also a major customer – and many of those books in the Amazon packaging are coming to you straight from Gardners. That will be news to many indie authors reading this, as will the news that...
View ArticleAs India’s Niyogi Books prepares to launch its first Hindi titles next month,...
For a paper-importing country like India, rising paper prices pose a more serious challenge in coming years than online price discounting and the rise of ebooks. As Indian publishers strive to find and...
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Big Bad Wolf – TNPS Story of the Year 2018
Given The New Publishing Standard only launched in September 2017, 2018 is is our first full calendar year, and our first opportunity to look back on the year and select the outstanding publishing...
View ArticlePrint Sales Top 700 Million Units for first time since 2010
NPD Bookscan has reported 2018 print sales at 707.4 million, the highest since 2010. Michelle Obama’s Becoming played a big role in that, and of course in previous years it’s been JK Rowling. Nice to...
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StreetLib completes January tranche of global expansion. 21 countries on 6...
When StreetLib launched The New Publishing Standard in September 2017 we made clear the function of the journal was to stimulate debate about the much-neglected global book markets. It was not a...
View ArticleAmazon accounts for 50% of online book sales in France
There’s not much to go on here, but also no real surprise. Amazon claimed 50% of online book sales in France in 2018, according to a report by Kantor World Panel. According to the report Amazon was by...
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Boldwood Books goes energetically global with simultaneous ebook, audiobook...
With a name like Boldwood Books one really wouldn’t expect anything less than a bold launch of a new publishing operation, and that’s exactly what Amanda Ridout has delivered. While many bigger...
View ArticleThe India book market remains “a giant in slumber” as new taxes hit imports...
In an ill-considered move aimed at protecting the domestic publishing industry, the Indian government has imposed a 5% tax on imported paper books. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the new...
View ArticleA prospective Bible shortage drives home the unhealthy reliance of the US...
Leaving aside any debate about the rights and wrongs of the US-China trade dispute and tariffs being imposed by both sides, the dispute has brought to the fore the unhealthy reliance of US publishers...
View ArticleAmazon’s self-publishing arm KDP Print now offers POD in Canada, but POD for...
Print-on-demand (POD) is a great resource for publishers of all sizes, but it’s only as good as its nearest localized print and distribution partner. While a POD book can, in theory, be sent anywhere...
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Publish Global, the StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter for self-publishers, is...
The first issue of the new B2B newsletter for self-publishers, Publish Global – serious about self-publishing, has been arriving in subscriber inboxes, and while some of the contents will be familiar...
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Big Bad Wolf partners with DHL and Sharjah Book Authority to deliver 1...
Big Bad Wolf has just announced what almost certainly will be its grand finale event for 2019, its tenth anniversary year. Big Bad Wolf Kuala Lumpur will run December 6-16 with 4.5 million books...
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StreetLib launches Totem, a B2B Print On Demand facility for Italian bookstores
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib promotional vehicle, StreetLib publishing news is as much publishing news as any other. As ever when...
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UK print has best year since 2010. Records 5th consecutive year of growth
Nielsen’s latest figures for UK publishing 2019 show a remarkable story of resilience and stability for printed books in a tumultuous global book market that at the start of this decade many believed...
View ArticleThe TNPS Festive Season Weeks in Review
For those who didn’t get the chance to open any or all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a summary of the key stories covered in the past two weeks as western publishing took its annual...
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IngramSpark introduces new quality rules for self-published authors, but many...
Intent on preserving its reputation for quality, IngramSpark, the print-on-demand arm of Ingram that targets self-published authors, sent out notice today that new rules would come into play in April...
View ArticlePublishers Weekly launches #BooksAreEssential social media campaign to...
In times of crisis we often have to make difficult choices, redefine our priorities, and make sacrifices that in more normal and staid times would not be necessary, or even thinkable. Giving up the...
View ArticleIreland’s postal service offers lifeline to print books during the pandemic...
Set aside for a moment the moral dilemma of whether it is okay to shut bookstores to keep people safely at home because print books are deemed not essential, and then ask warehouse and delivery...
View ArticleBookstore re-openings promise to be tortuous as these examples from Germany...
In various parts of the world lockdown is slowly being eased, and as a low-risk business, bookstores are among the first to be allowed to re-open, albeit with restrictions. Its tempting to think that...
View ArticleBulgaria will cut its VAT rate on books and ebooks from 20% to 9% on July 1....
While many EU countries have taken the 2018 VAT harmonization ruling to reduce the tax on ebooks to be in line with print, Bulgaria is among the few countries in Europe not to follow suit. Rather...
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