Deluxe editions of popular titles are driving sales of print books this holiday season, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray said at a media conference this week, adding that the company is looking into how it might use various AI-driven products to enhance its business. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Unit sales of print books from outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan increased 2.8% in 2015 over 2014, marking the second consecutive year that print units posted annual gains. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The book business looks ready to mark a second consecutive year of unit growth of print books. With one week to go in the year, unit sales of print books were up 2.8% compared to the same period in 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Say what you will about Bill O’Reilly, but he knows what the public wants. This is a guy who hosts a highly rated cable news program and wrote a first novel in which a fiendish stalker murders a man with an iced-tea spoon on Page 6. Nowhere is O’Reilly’s canniness more evident than in the... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2015-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The enduring popularity of coloring books for adults and a successful Small Business Saturday got the holiday season off to a strong start for independent booksellers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The world's largest retail trade association predicted that 135.8 million people will shop this weekend, and that total holiday sales will increase 3.7% to reach $630.5 billion. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Our love of the print book is problematic," writes Bath Spa University's Rosie Maynard, "causing people left, right and centre to declare ‘THE BOOK IS DEAD’ or some variation thereof." A couple of years ago, everyone in what I call "the industry! the industry!" passed around a ridiculous video... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Digital is now as big a part of this industry as print' There is a belief (and relief) now among some booksellers that the ebook "threat" is over. I have heard similar talk from senior buyers at supermarkets, who tell me that they have seen e-reader buyers switching to print books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bricks-and-mortar booksellers have a “fantastic opportunity to seize the moment”, with year-to-date print sales up for the first time in eight years. Figures from Nielsen Bookscan show sales of print books for the first 36 weeks of 2015 are up by 4.6% (worth £739.5m) when compared to the same... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With sales at many member stores up over last year, SIBA executive director Wanda Jewell said booksellers "seem very positive going into the holiday season,” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lawyers for Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet say they were trapped into accepting €40,000 each to not print book Two French journalists facing extortion charges for allegedly trying to blackmail the Moroccan king, Mohammed VI, have said they were trapped into the agreement.Eric Laurent and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When it comes to print books, sometimes innovation means returning to ancient methodologies. To wit: the creation of the new, Illuminated St. John's Bible. The post Illumination as Innovation: The New Saint John’s Bible appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Touchpress started life because I was terribly annoyed with the world for not having a platform on which I could publish the interactive electronic edition of my print book, The Elements (which existed fully formed in my little mind, and nowhere else). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The biography/autobiography/memoir and house & home/gardening categories were the two hottest book segments in the first half of 2015, based on unit sales of print books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of print books for the first six months of 2015 were running just about even with the same period in 2014 at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Units inched up 0.3% in the period, to more than 286 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ben Denckla explains how he converted Lionel Lord Tennyson's 1933 autobiography into an ebook, and in the process updated it for the 21st century. The post How To: Improving a Print Book By Converting it Into an Ebook appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Since the collapse of Borders, independent booksellers’ role in the sale of print books has increased, but that does not seem to be the case for physical audio. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The sale of nonbook items rose at Books-A-Million in 2014, compared to 2013, as the retailer continued to diversify its inventory mix in response to a decline in print books, the company reported in its 10-K filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The French, German, Italian and Polish culture ministers today released a joint statement calling for the European Commission to propose immediately legislation to allow VAT on ebooks to be levied at the same reduced rate as print books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon customers in the US can now convert their print titles into Kindle books with a software package called Kindle Convert. Currently available in the US for computers running Windows 7 and 8, the software helps users to scan in pages of their print books, converting the image into usable... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For many bricks-and-mortar bookstores, 2014 was a banner year, helped by the overall improvement in the sale of print books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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