Ingram advises publishers shift from B2B to D2C marketing tactics
While overall demand for books has not lagged, the purchasing journey has shifted from in-store placement to social media and retail websites.
While overall demand for books has not lagged, the purchasing journey has shifted from in-store placement to social media and retail websites.
The Hot Sheet Index reviewed the change in unit sales in January 2020 versus January 2019 in traditionally published romance.
A company plans to publish children’s books to help young children better understand the pandemic.
While the NPD Group tracks sales of traditionally published romance only, they’re seeing growth in the category this year as a result of COVID-19.
In the US and UK, a crowded fall season makes it challenging to get media attention for new releases and to keep popular books in stock.
At this point, just about everyone has heard about “Zoombombing,” where Zoom events are infiltrated and intentionally disrupted by trolls.
Sasha White, an agent at Tobias Literary Agency, was fired last month for tweets about trans people.
While overall demand for books has not lagged, the purchasing journey has shifted from in-store placement to social media and retail websites.
Earlier this summer most of the organization’s board resigned after internal dissension over its anti-racism statement.
Stephanie Kim has joined New Leaf Literary & Media. Previously, she worked in traditional publishing at William Morrow and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Literati is a service that delivers a selection of children’s books (print only) to subscribers every month for $9.95
For the week ending Aug. 15, year-to-date sales for print books were up by 5.5 percent versus 2019.
Unpredictability permeates all aspects of bookstore operations, including inventory selection, title availability, and mail delivery.
Without any information about Spotify’s editorial direction or payment terms, it’s an open question whether—and how—this move benefits publishers or authors.
Scott Dickey of Podium discusses working with Audible, coordinating ebook and audiobook releases, and producing entire series.
The Hot Sheet Index reviewed the audiobook markets. The United States had the largest market with a market of $1.5 billion.
Danya Kukafka is seeking literary suspense, sophisticated thrillers, speculative fiction, and experimental fiction.
Of the Big Four tech companies, Amazon is showing the strongest results. During the second quarter of 2020, its revenue was up by 40 percent.
Several big houses are seeing sales declines but increased profits (as well as lower costs) due to better-selling ebooks and audiobooks.
Driving factors right now are the continuing strong market for books on civil rights, history, and discrimination.
Bookshop has seen tremendous growth and sales in a very short amount of time, partly a result of the pandemic.
So far, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and the Netherlands are profitable for Storytel on a local level.
The CEO says, “Our acquisition of SlideShare is a major step towards creating the world’s largest digital library.”
The UK bookselling chain, which also has a presence in the US, expects to lay off 1,500 employees, or roughly 10 percent of its workforce.
China Literature can be thought of as the Chinese version of Amazon KDP, with millions of pieces of serialized content uploaded to its site.
Ingram is seeing publishers use fewer offset print runs, more digital short runs, and POD as the backup for everything.
Recently, Amazon sent emails to podcasters inviting them to manually submit their podcast for inclusion in Amazon Music and Audible catalogs.
As the pandemic creates shortfalls in state budgets, all educational programs face budget cuts, but higher education may get hit the hardest.
Canelo Crime will launch with eight titles this September and actively seeks new novels for 2021 and beyond.
Crystal Orazu “hopes to represent and uplift authors whose stories allow readers to feel seen and heard in new and exciting ways.”
Hajar Press intends to publish “ambitious and politically engaged fiction and nonfiction” by writers of color.
The imprint will “give a voice to black and minority authors—including conservatives, libertarians, traditional liberals, and iconoclasts.”
There’s a risk that book publishers may have to scramble to find new printers if the bankruptcy of LSC takes a bad turn.
Alcove will focus on book club fiction exploring family, friendship, and communities. Its first titles release this fall.
Publisher, author, and journalist Kenneth Whyte blames libraries for the declining fortunes of independent and chain bookstores.
Trade book publishing is now seeing its best unit sales since 2010, but some categories are performing better than others.
Authors who pay for advertising on Amazon can now see the effect on pages read through Kindle Unlimited—a potential gamechanger.
Several US publishers filed a lawsuit against Internet Archive over its provocative move to establish an online National Emergency Library.
The imprint will publish memoirs, musical social histories, and first-person narratives from well-established writers, musicians, and commentators.
Abacus, a royalty tracker, can now accept sales reports from IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Kobo, Google, and Apple Books.
Eight titles for middle-grade readers will release on Sept. 7, all adapted from Arcadia’s existing Haunted America series for adults.
Member Shelley Macbeth, owner of Blue Heron Books in Ontario, said the organization’s platform is to “advocate, educate, communicate.”
The Hot Sheet Index reviewed the print bestsellers for 2020 so far. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins had the top spot.
NeoText will publish works ranging from science fiction and noir novellas to investigative journalism and narrative nonfiction.
According to NPD BookScan, ebook unit sales increased by 31 percent in April 2020 compared to ebook unit sales for March 2020.
Scribd now offers 1,000 titles from Mexico-based Grupo Planeta in their Spanish-language subscription service in Mexico and Latin America.
Through July 25, US print unit sales are up by 4.1 percent versus 2019, according to NPD BookScan.