The social network’s results and revenues are failing to impress investors – especially when compared with Facebook’s and Google’sGood news travels fast, but bad news even faster – especially if it’s the release of lacklustre results from Twitter. That’s what happened on Tuesday last week when,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
France is once again putting pressure on Amazon, this time through ebook subscription. Ironically, France's homegrown subscription services may suffer more. The post Bad News for Kindle Unlimited in France? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
There was a mix of good news and bad news in Barnes & Noble’s first-quarter financials, which the company released last week for the period ended August 2. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
What American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher called Amazon's "bullying assault of a major publisher" was a key concern among indie booksellers at both Thursday afternoon's ABA Town Hall and Annual Meeting. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s 2014, and for North American manga publishers, the digital revolution is well underway. Where there once were only a handful of publishers offering their titles online or via ebook apps, now almost all of them are offering, or negotiating to offer at least some of their current and backlist... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
It is rare that an industry would see the declining growth rate of its fastest-growing product as anything but bad news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The good news: According to a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts, more than half of American adults read books for pleasure in 2012.The good news: According to a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts, more than half of American adults read books for pleasure in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes and Noble has not had an easy go of it. The brick-and-mortar stalwart has seen its revenues and profits steeply decline as we've entered the age of the ebook. In fact, profits haven't just shrunk; they've disappeared. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013, the company suffered a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
(Reuters) - Canadian newspaper publishers Torstar Corp and Quebecor Inc delivered more bad news to investors on Wednesday, saying that cost cuts were failing to keep pace with an accelerating decline in print media revenue. Torstar sha ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Borders’s closure in 2011 served as a gloomy backdrop for the panel at the New York Public Library on February 12, “The Future of Art Book Publishing,” whose title carried a hint of bad news for catalogues and monographs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble’s second-quarter financial performance had both good news and bad news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yesterday will not be remembered as a great day in Google's history. As well as the vertiginous stock slide, which sliced 9% off its share value before trading was halted for a couple of hours, the search engine firm threatened war with the French media. L'horage dans le teacup is over a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
“You don’t understand,” the three-time, big-six published author told me. “Books aren’t designed for you, the customer. Today, non-fiction books are business cards--for speaking, consulting, and deals.” I was meeting this friend for dinner in New York City and had mentioned a trend I had... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The newspaper business’s reliance on the industrial machine of printing and distributing is often understated. It’s a delicate ecosystem that can have a real effect on publisher margins – as the fluctuation in newsprint ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
There's a strange concept in marketing that no publicity is really bad. If people talk about you, it broadly raises brand awareness. People eventually forget the bad news but not the brand. Who remembers last year's furor over Apple's onerous publisher subscription terms? That's the eventual... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]