Spain's Pentian crowdfunding platform for books offers a new business model: paying 50% of profits from book sales to backers of the book and 40% to the author. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sameer Hashmi reports from a bookstore in Mumbai, where a thirst for political insight is driving up book sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite a dramatic drop in book sales, Aladin used bookstores have thrived, with some publishers dumping books to boost sales; a fixed-price law is now under debate. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
After it was revealed that JK Rowling wrote the crime novel, The Cuckoo's Calling, under pseudonym Robert Galbraith, book sales on Amazon have spiked by 507,000 percent. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
'1984' book sales are rising after the Edward Snowden revelations about NSA spying. The topic of 'Big Brother' watching has spurred the sales of George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
With 20% of Russia's bookstores having closed and book sales in free fall, the government is investing $100m to promote reading and change in the industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book sales in Bulgaria were up 10% in 2012, with publishers reporting more than 5,000 books were published the previous year, of which 1,500 were translations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's well off the triple year-over-year growth that ebooks saw a few years ago, but the latest report from the Association of American Publishers shows that ebooks did inch up even further in 2012 to account for a sizeable chunk of overall book sales. According to its figures, ebooks now... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book sales at W H Smith dropped 6% like-for-like in the six months to 28th February, according to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Research is showing that book sales around the world are in general decline and in some countries people are said to have simply stopped reading. What's to blame? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book sales at WH Smith have dropped 6% like-for-like across the high street and travel divisions... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
No one would have been able to predict at the start of 2012 that a BDSM erotic romantic trilogy—Fifty Shades—would set new records for book sales and change/spice up what women worldwide would admit to be reading, many for the first time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spain’s financial crisis and slump in book sales has led Spanish-language publishers to focus on Latin America, with agents bypassing Spain to sell rights directly in the region. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite a dip in overall book sales down under, Australian agents and rights managers report a booming business from the Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Retailers say the summer’s mixed weather is giving book sales a lift, with Nielsen BookScan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waitrose is now an "increasing force in fiction‚" having extended its book range... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has revealed a 14% increase in like-for-like book sales in the UK, including... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
WH Smith has reported a 3% rise in group profit year-on-year for the six months to 29th February... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
By encouraging readers to tackle longer, more sophisticated novels, the queen of daytime TV may have hurt overall fiction sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nineteen staff at book sales and distribution company Publishers Group UK are facing redundancy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]