Publishing Newsbook touring / Comic books / digital book sales / ninjas / print books / tabloid journalism1 Comments
Real books are back. E-book sales plunge nearly 20% – Objective reporting is so wonderful, isn’t it? How about accurate reporting? Just check out the comparison between the so-called “plunge” in digital book sales and the rise of print book sales. And then there’s the fine print: certain types of print ... more >
Publishing NewsBaileys Prize / bookstores / cosplay / India / millennials / print books / Star Wars6 Comments
McInerney’s murder tale wins Baileys book prize – Formerly the Orange Prize, the Baileys Prize for Fiction honors the best UK books by women, and this year’s winner is Lisa McInerney for The Glorious Heresies. The Prize is £30,000 and is 20 years old this year. The shortlisted books were as follows: ... more >
Publishing NewsBEA / book adaptations / booksellers / Ebooks / Game of Thrones / print books / publishing10 Comments
Books are back: Printed book sales rise for first time in four years as ebooks suffer decline and BEA 2016: E-book Sales Fell 13% in 2015, Nielsen Reports – Trends in both then UK and US book markets appear to mirror each other, with adult coloring books and other “lifestyle non-fiction” propelling the ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Banned-Books / book clubs / digital publishing / Kobo / print books / Self-publishing / traditional publishing1 Comments
Book publishing is a resilient business: Kobo CEO – An interview with Kobo’s CEO Michael Tambyln, who argues that “every year [the publishing industry] finds a new driver for growth,” and this year it is the dynamic between print and digital books. Despite the digital slowdown, Tambyln notes the continuing growth ... more >
Publishing NewsBig 5 publishers / digital publishing / first sale doctrine / Hachette / marriage / music royalties / Perseus / print books / Tidal6 Comments
Hachette Book Group to Acquire the Perseus Books Group – It always amuses me that autocorrect persistently tries to change Hachette to Machete. Heh. Anyway, Hachette and Perseus finally managed to complete a sales deal that they have been working on for several years. The new acquisition for Hachette adds a ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / Chuck Klosterman / digital books / History / i0S / movie trailers / print books / privacy / Suicide Squad3 Comments
iOS cookie theft bug allowed hackers to impersonate users – If you’re running iOS, make sure you’re running 9.2.1, which fixed a pernicious bug that Apple was informed of way back in 2013. Security company Skycure blogged about the vulnerability, noting that it could Steal users’ (HTTP) cookies associated with a ... more >