It’s been three years since HarperCollins became the first publisher to move to a digital catalogue. Since then Random House has gone entirely paperless, while others, like Perseus Books Group, offer both. Some provide Edelweiss printouts on request. Yet despite the push to digital, a handful of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Online retailer Amazon announces it sells more ebooks than hardbacks and paperbacks combined. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.co.uk customers are buying more Kindle books than print books, both hardback and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Launched at the end of 2011, the ebook program of the Library of America has released eight titles so far with plans to publish about two ebooks a month for the next year. LOA publisher Max Rudin explained that the nonprofit charged with producing high-quality, beautifully designed editions of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon announced that it has purchased the North American rights to Ian Fleming's James Bond books. James Bond, of course, is the debonair British superspy 007, played on film by a number of actors, including Sean Connery (above). Under the agreement, Amazon will retain republication rights for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2012-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since its launch last December in partnership with the American Booksellers Association, Google eBooks has yet to capture significant market share. According to the Codex Groups recent Showrooming study, while the number of people who read both print books and ebooks has grown from 25% in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of print books in the major trade categories fell 22.9% in the first six months of 2011 at the houses that report figures to the Association of American Publishers. The declines were greatest among the adult segments, with sales down by more than 20% in the hardcover, trade paperback, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 07/07/2011 - 14:31 Sales of print books in the academic, specialist and higher education publishing market have slumped in the first half of the year, with one publisher seeing a decline of 22% in print sales. But academic publishers pointed to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 01/06/2011 - 09:52 E-book sales accounted for over 8% of Pan Macmillan's trade sales in the first quarter of 2011, with the publisher predicting a rise to up to 10% by the end of the year. Over the same period, the publisher's sales of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 10/05/2011 - 12:22 The Ed Victor Literary Agency, one of the most powerful agencies in London, has launched its own ebook and print on demand venture, focusing initially on putting back into circulation out of print books or those on which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The two reports measure different aspects of the book market and one is far more comprehensive than the other, but figures released last week by Nielsen BookScan and the Association of American Publishers showed a trade market where ebooks are thriving and print books are struggling. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]