“Non-essential” UK bookstore retail faces an existential challenge as 2021...
Many publishers will be watching their retail accounts closely this lockdown and wondering at what point bricks & mortar retail supply, with all its built-in inefficiencies and overheads, might be...
View ArticleIn June 2020 half the NY Times paperback bestseller list came from Ingram’s...
POD is an exciting prospect for the global book markets and will come into its own in this coming decade, with Sweden perhaps most likely to lead the fray. The Shatzkin Files, the blog of...
View ArticleUSA’s AAP numbers shows print and digital formats all doing well, but the...
And then there’s ebooks, where we can safely say the AAP numbers are at best indicative, but miss a massive volume – both unit and revenue – of ebook engagement by consumers. The great thing about the...
View ArticleBookwire Brazil’s Bok2 acquisition reflects POD’s growing role in the global...
POD is an exciting prospect for the global book markets and will come into its own in this coming decade, with Sweden perhaps most likely to lead the fray. The press release from Germany-based...
View ArticleUrban Publishing Myths: Bookstore closures hurt frontlist sales
Seriously? It’s taken a pandemic to make publishers realise that marketing can be done online? No wonder indie authors have been raking in a billion bucks in royalties from KU while mainstream...
View Article“May Bookstore Sales Jumped 130%.” “May Bookstore Sales Down 9.2%.” US...
“As an industry we need to come to terms with the new reality – the “new normal” as we liked to call it not so long ago – and address the new paradigm where the bookselling cake has indeed gotten...
View ArticleBookstore UK, the antidote to Amazon, delivered $2.3 million to UK indie...
The imminent pandemic winter may or may not be as bad as last year, but it will be bad, and bookstore owners, publishers, authors and consumers alike should be thankful that Bookstore.org will be...
View ArticleAs print sales plummet 20%, industry says print fatigue is to blame
Imagine for one second that it was ebook sales that had precipitously dropped 20% in the past week and was down almost 8% so far this year. Yes, this post was first written on April 1, but no, this is...
View ArticleUS print sales fall another 6% as the Q1 declines continue into Q2
Perhaps the man with most cause for concern will be James Daunt, the Atlantic-straddling CEO of Barnes & Noble and Waterstones, who will already be having sleepness nights as the post Pandemic,...
View ArticleJuly US print book sales down 8.8% in first week. Fortunately Nikki Haley...
It’s just a shame much of the industry cannot apply the same reasoned rationale to ebooks, where any downward slide in sales numbers is gleefully seized upon as evidence the format is history. There’s...
View ArticleReaders prefer “real” books rather than ebooks or audiobooks – writes a...
Who would want to pay $20 – or even just $10 – for a digital file they will never own and cannot share with friends or sell on, when they can buy a print book for the same price, own it from day one,...
View ArticleUK – Publishers ‘on brink of collapse’ as US-owned UK distributor struggles
Publishers have warned some firms are being driven to “the brink of collapse” by ongoing issues with distributor Orca Book Services almost a year after concerns were first raised. Lauren Brown,...
View Article“We know just how and where our audience is accessing content in today’s...
Paraphrasing Jessica Cruel’s comment as Markus Dohle might have put it: “We know just how and where we want our audience to access our content and we’ll make sure they have no other choice.” “PRINT IS...
View ArticleUK – James Daunt isn’t cut out to be a transnational industry tycoon....
Just maybe, Jim, its time you handed Waterstones management to someone who is actually in the UK every day and focussed on Waterstones. You’re a bookstore chain manager, not a transnational industry...
View ArticleAbout That Englishman In New York Who Turned The Page On Barnes & Noble…
And somehow Daunt magically beat the ogre at its own game and apparently, they will all live happily ever after. The Forbes headline ran “How an Englishman In New York Turned The Page On Barnes &...
View ArticleUS print sales fell 6.5% in 2022 as “interest in reading” fell
Curious how, when it’s declining ebook numbers that are reported, this rationale is set aside and its all about consumer disaffection with the format, screen fatigue, or whatever the latest...
View ArticleRestructuring at PRH -meaningful, or musical chairs?
In the wake of the Court debacle that led to Markus Dohle’s long-overdue resignation, the changes to make PRH appear competitive in the acquisitions arena were inevitable, but as the Court detail (as...
View ArticleSay hello to HC Arc®, the new font for “non-English” books that no-one has...
If HCArc® can reduce the amount of paper used per title by up to 20% then that’s certainly a bonus for the environment, and no doubt for profit margins. Which begs the question, why not introduce this...
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“We’re driving toward a paper crisis. More mills are converting to...
“We’re driving toward a paper crisis. More mills are converting to higher-value papers for diapers, etc. One mill closure or printer bankruptcy would put us back into a very difficult situation” –...
View Article“ISBN hyperinflation” and “arteriosclerosis of distribution channels.”...
Which reader is so poorly educated that they might be confused by the fact that there are a lot of books available? The regular slot over at Publishing Perspectives that allows Richard Charkin free...
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