Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 31/08/2011 - 10:05 E-book sales now account for over 10% of Random House Group UK sales, as worldwide earnings for parent company Random House surged despite a dip in sales. In the first six months of 2011, Random House worldwide reported revenue of 787m (£697.3m), down from 791m (£701.0m) last year, according to figures from parent company Bertelsmman. However, earnings before interest and taxes surged from 40m (£35.5m) to 69m (£61.2m) during the same period. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Smaller academic presses said the digital transition was a “huge” issue for their... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Retailers say the summer’s mixed weather is giving book sales a lift, with Nielsen BookScan... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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News updates all day from Fast Company.Amazon is getting ready to introduce new tablets, Staples' president of U.S. retail, Demos Parneros, told Reuters Monday.Parneros said the online retailer will introduce five or six new tablet SKUs, or stock-keeping units, including those for a 10-inch... Continue reading at Fast Company
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Waitrose is now an "increasing force in fiction‚" having extended its book range... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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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 at Publishers Weekly
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NEW YORK -- This fall, the University of Oregon’s Daily Emerald -- a print publication for more than 90 years -- will ditch the daily for digital, publish a twice-weekly magazine, and launch a mini-tech start-up called The Garage. It' ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Total book sales fell 2.5% in 2011, to $27.2 billion, according to the latest figures released by BookStats. Revenue was down in three of the four major segments measured by BookStats—k–12, higher education, and professional/scholarly—and up slightly in trade. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Angry Robot’s ebook initiative, which sees independent bookshop customers receive a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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US publishers' sales of ebooks more than doubled in 2011, meaning that the digital book is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Italian publisher RCS Libri has launched Rizzoli First, a digital-first list that will publish... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Sales of E L James's Fifty Shades novels have fallen for the first time in two months, but... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Traditional trade publishers have been testing the digital-first/digital-only publishing waters for more than two years now, and the pace is accelerating. This month alone, Penguin is reviving the Dutton Guilt Edged Mysteries line as a digital only imprint, Kensington has launched eKensington as... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Magazine publishing giant Conde Nast shook up its corporate sales staff Wednesday by placing digital advertising boss Josh Stinchcomb over sales for print, digital, mobile, video and marketing services. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Publishers are "missing out" on ebook sales to schools because of the lack of a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Bloomsbury's global ebook sales were up 70% year on year between 1st March and 31st May 2012... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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June saw UK retail sales rising 1.4% year-on-year on a like-for-like basis, with sales up 3.5% on... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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E-books, plus the consumer downturn, have taken a £50m bite out of the print book market... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Random House has reprinted its record-busting Fifty Shades trilogy a further three times... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Bloomberg Businessweek has signalled its intention to make greater inroads into the UK market and become a “real global brand” by increasing its circulation in Europe and Asia by 80,000 copies a week. The US-based magazine giant ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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News updates all day from Fast Company.One of the advantages that Google's Nexus 7 tablet may have over its Amazon rival the Kindle Fire is that Google wants to push it out internationally sooner, whereas Amazon is overly US-centric now. But it's emerged that when the Nexus hits British shores,... Continue reading at Fast Company
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