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Nigeria’s booksellers promise vibrant trade, but casting social media as the...
Nigeria’s Booksellers Association (BAN) has fresh blood after recent AGM elections, and BAN’s new president, Dare Michael Oluwatuyi, MD of CSS Bookshops Limited, is determined to reverse years of...
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Brazil’s Jaraguá do Sul Book Fair says it cannot guarantee the safety of...
Banned books at book fairs is nothing new, and we are mostly eager to condemn such practices, in the name of free speech and freedom to publish. But where do we stand when it comes to censoring guest...
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India’s Coimbatore Book Fair launches amid more nonsense about how social...
Summer is a quiet time in the Indian book fair scene, with the mega-events that attract millions of visitors tending to cluster around winter-spring, but there are some exceptions, and one is kicking...
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The San Diego Comic Con reminds us the attention economy is a two way street...
Tom Cruise. Natalie Portman, Patrick Stewart… The San Diego Comic Con has been dominated by celebrity news about the latest film, TV, comics and games. The attention economy in action, right? How can...
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Publishers look the other way as VOD streamers target Middle East’s “spiral...
India’s SonyLIV is the latest video streaming operator to enter the lucrative and fast-growing Middle East market. Uday Sodhi business head of digital, Sony Pictures Networks India, explained, With a...
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While some publishers see social media as the enemy, others understand...
We hear it so often it’s easy to start believing it. Nobody reads because they are all on social media on their smartphones. And let’s be honest. It’s easy to buy into that narrative. Just take a look...
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OverDrive’s Sora digital reading app for schools had 5.5 million checkouts in...
This is a remarkable story that blows apart the faux narratives that smartphones are destroying the reading habit and that kids don’t read digitally. Yes, of course kids love printed books, and long...
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In March 2018 the BIC called on UK publishers not to abuse metadata. Today...
Rules are there to be broken. At least, that appears to be the thinking of many in the UK publishing industry. BIC – Book Industry Communication – describes itself as, an independent organisation set...
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Marvel Avengers comic banned at Brazil’s Rio book fair because of a gay kiss
Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, published between 2010-12 in the US, has been available in Brazil in Portuguese, without controversy, as Vingadores: A Cruzada Das Crianças, since 2016 through...
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PublisHer launches new website
One of the most exciting developments in global publishing this year has been the emergence of PublisHer, an all-female coterie of publishing professionals who will stand no nonsense about publishing...
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Déjà vu. Once again self-published authors are not welcome at the Sunday...
Last year the Wall Street Journal noted how Jeff Bezos had proudly told us how thousands of authors earned more than $50,000, with more than a thousand surpassing $100,000 in royalties. Those earnings...
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Gaming the system pays… on Amazon UK. Over 30% of the Amazon UK Top 100...
Back in March 2018 the BIC called on UK publishers not to game the system by abusing metadata. Amazon too makes clear that metadata abuse is unacceptable. Except when it’s Amazon abusing the system,...
View ArticleDigital Book World bans Macmillan from September DBW conference as US...
Here at TNPS I’ve not covered the Macmillan dispute with libraries in any depth, as the matter has received plenty of coverage elsewhere on the trade circuit, and is at core a US-only dispute, while...
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Data Guy’s Bookstat over-guesses UK ebook sales by 14,000 units for 5 of the...
Once again the UK’s The Bookseller has reproduced the Bookstat ebook bestsellers top ten chart in the UK for our delectation, and once again the numbers Bookstat numbers miss the mark, badly, when...
View ArticleData Guy’s Bookstat reigns in its guesses on Hachette titles, but still...
Having been out by many thousands in recent weeks, Data Guy’s Bookstat, which purports to track every online sale – print or digital – with pinpoint precision, appears to have reigned in its...
View ArticlePublishers Weekly launches #BooksAreEssential social media campaign to...
In times of crisis we often have to make difficult choices, redefine our priorities, and make sacrifices that in more normal and staid times would not be necessary, or even thinkable. Giving up the...
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“Just. &%$*@. Stop.” Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn tells the coronavirus book...
When it comes to book scams, digital makes it easy for pretty much anyone anywhere to get in on the act, and publish pretty much anything. And as we all know, a crisis of any sort is an open door for...
View ArticleMapping the new normal: USA’s Books-A-Million re-opens bookstores with...
America’s second-largest bookstore chain, Books-A-Million, is readying for Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 10 in USA) and is opening all but a handful of its 200 stores across the country, the exceptions...
View ArticleSimon & Schuster Q1 revenue up 4%, driven by 16% growth in ebook and...
As part of ViacomCBS the Simon & Schuster management, like HarperCollins, understands the value of digital. Said ViacomCBS in its Q1 report: Domestic streaming and digital video revenue – which...
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Lockdown exposes the deep flaws in Data Guy’s Bookstat guessing game
From the very first Author Earnings Report the efforts of the web-scraping expert known as Data Guy to convince us he has the true sales figures for digital books have been mired in controversy....
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