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Data Guy rewrites the historical Author Earnings US ebook statistics. 2016 US...
I had occasion to revisit Data Guy’s January 2018 Author Earnings Report this week. And I found Data Guy has quietly slipped in new numbers for 2015 and 2016 US ebook market. Said Data Guy on May 31...
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Britain uses “Kafkaesque” rules to refuse visas to authors invited to the...
There’s a clue in the word “international. The Edinburgh International Book Festival may not be the biggest book event in the world, but it is one of the most respected. Or rather, it used to be. But...
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Storytel’s royalty model “rigged and manipulated.” Storm brews over...
With Storytel under increasing pressure from rival operators in the Swedish audiobook arena two things were inevitable. First, Storytel’s market share would fall. And consequent on that Storytel would...
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Storytel’s Jonas Tellander responds to the Swedish audiobook royalties storm
Svensk Bokhandel, the Swedish publishing industry journal that broke the story about Storytel’s two tier royalties – one level for Bonnier, another for everyone else – carries a response from Storytel...
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A mermaid wearing a bra among the books banned in Kuwait, but protests are...
Censorship is a difficult topic that arouses strong emotions, but of course all freedom of speech is relative. From national security to Holocaust denial to incitement to hatred to advocating underage...
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Israeli publisher illegally releases book of Arab women’s texts, complete...
You couldn’t make it up. A publisher in Israel finds a collection of texts written in Arabic by women, steals a cover image from a Lebanese artist, and publishes them as a book, justifying the piracy...
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In Morocco, selling pirated books “is the only way to make a living,” with...
Like in many Arab countries, literacy rates in Morocco are not among the highest in the world, but for Moroccans who do read the challenge is finding books they want at prices they can afford. When...
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2020 World Book Capital’s censorship double standards: It’s one rule for...
There were many raised eyebrows this past week when UNESCO declared Kuala Lumpur would be the World Book Capital in 2020. Because while there’s no question Malaysia is making great strides to advance...
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Thalia invests in Skoobe as Storytel booms. Amazon’s KU a magnet for scammers
As I write this, HarperCollins’ CEO Charlie Redmayne is due to make a keynote speech at Frankfurt on the subscription model. Too soon to report on that, but in a preview interview over at Publishing...
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Ebook sales doubled in US in 2018 according to Data Guy’s nonsensical...
When Digital Book World announced Data Guy would be delivering the closing keynote speech, during which time he would dazzle us with yet more publishing industry numbers known to nobody else, and...
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The Arab Renaissance set back by worsening censorship in Kuwait....
After the resounding success of the Sharjah International Book Fair in the UAE, extolling a message of cultural tolerance and publishing freedom, the Arab literary arena was this week plunged into...
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Falling Fiction Sales -Why Is It Happening? – The Hot Sheet Reviewed – 14...
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter Anderson and Jane Friedman, and reviewed here every other Sunday (when possible) as one of the best...
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Has the Kuwait book ban been overturned?
The just-ended Kuwait Book Fair attracted a lot of unwelcome international attention this year thanks to what were often wildly irrational censorship decisions resulting in 700 books banned in 2018 and...
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South Africa govt. to step up state publishing programme, threatening future...
Earlier this year TNPS reported on a move by the Rwandan government to bring its educational publishing programme in-house, putting the future of local publishers at risk. African publishers pay the...
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Hakuna matata! African authors need to create a canon of African children’s...
Cultural appropriation, while not new, is a rising theme in a modern world that is connected in a way impossible to imagine even ten years ago, and with it comes an acceleration in examples of...
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Amazon’s Audible says self-published ebooks and paperbacks are not evidence...
With the announcement in December that Amazon-owned Audible was sponsoring the prestigious Sunday Times Short Story Award came the prospect that the winners would not just earn some extra cash but...
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Has Data Guy’s Author Earnings Report finally been laid to rest?
It’s been well over a year since the last Author Earnings Report was released by Data Guy, the data analyst who preferred to keep how own identity hidden while making controversial claims about ebook...
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International Publishers Association Welcomes European Copyright Agreement
Breaking news via the International Publishers Association: Following the adoption of the Copyright Directive by the European Parliament plenary on 26 March, IPA President welcomed the result and...
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New Zealand authors struggle to survive on earnings from their writing,...
At end March a body called Copyright Licensing New Zealand published a study on author earnings in New Zealand which embarrassingly only reached my desk this week (hat-tip to Book Squad). Commissioned...
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With the “attention economy” the latest buzzword excuse for perceived falling...
The rise and rise of audiobook and ebook subscription streaming across the Scandinavian countries has been mentioned here at TNPS so often it hardly needs rehearsing again. But this week the tremendous...
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