UK Independent Bookshops in Decline as Buying Habits Change
The number of independent bookshops gracing British high streets has fallen below 1,000 - a third fewer than nine years ago, amid cut-throat competition from supermarkets, Amazon and ebooks....
View ArticleWorld’s Richest Authors List Joined by Veronica Roth, Gillian Flynn and John...
Novelist Veronica Roth, just 26 years old, earned $17m (£10.5m) last year thanks to her dystopian young adult trilogy Divergent, making her one of the richest authors in the world, according to Forbes....
View ArticleSales of Printed Books in UK Fall by More Than £150m in Five Years
Print sales of adult fiction have declined by over £150m since 2009, new figures show, as ebooks take an increasingly large bite out of the market. A review of 2014 from book sales monitor Nielsen...
View ArticleAuthors and Publishers May Constrain the Rise of Ebook Subscriptions
The subscription model has already taken off in music and television, with providers such as Spotify and Netflix. Consumers have shown an increasing preference for such all-you-can-eat bundles, as...
View ArticleHow Big Is Indian Publishing, Really? Coming: A Survey with the Answers
Indian publishing is always in the news. It could be a mega litfest or a bestselling author whom the intelligentsia sneers at; it could be a book sought to be banned, an author who gives up writing...
View ArticleNielsen Says eBook Sales Dipped 6% in 2014, But Their Numbers Smell Funny
Nielsen has just given us a great example of why one should always take publicly announced stats with a grain of salt. The Bookseller caught up with a story from Book Expo America this morning. Sarah...
View ArticleBy Focusing Only on Today’s Bestsellers, Legacy Publishers Are Missing Out on...
In the world of disruptive innovation, customers aren't just people who pay you money for whatever physical stuff your business shovels out the door. Traditional publishers would never think this way,...
View ArticleNielsen Values Indian Publishing at $3.9 Billion
The India Book Market Report released by Nielsen at Frankfurt Book Fair last week values the print book market in India, including book imports, at $3.9 billion. This positions India among the largest...
View ArticleSelf-Publishing & Big Five Dominate Book Market, According to Nielsen
Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 is in the rearview mirror but there were a few noteworthy tidbits gleaned from the event. Nielsen’s Jonathan Stolper shared some of the more important facts and figures in his...
View ArticleA Dull Holiday Season?
The hoped for post-election and holiday season sales bounce does not seem to be materializing. Unit sales of print books were down almost 6% between Thanksgiving week and the week ended December 18,...
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