Pearson has reported revenue fell 17% in the first half of 2020 as the result of “significant disruption” caused by Covid-19. However, the company has said “things are improving”, citing better sales in June. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The inclusion of Harlequin and strong sales of Chris Kyle’s memoir American Sniper (William Morrow) helped HarperCollins to a 14% increase in revenues in the three months to 31st March, compared to the year before. But ebook revenues declined 3% year-on-year, HarperCollins’ parent company News... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After getting information about special programs and Amazon’s integration with Purdue’s learning management system and adoptions, the National Association of College Stores is satisfied. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As Apple works toward a relaunch of its Beats Music streaming service, it’s reportedly pushing labels to kill off the free version of Spotify.It’s a bold move by Apple if The Verge’s unnamed sources are accurate, coming less than two years after a judge found that the company colluded with... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson has said trading for the first three months of 2015 has been in line with expectations, with a "good" first-quarter performance from Penguin Random House boosted by "million-copy" sales for The Girl on the Train. Pearson's underlying sales for the quarter were down 1% to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Just before the London Book Fair, Spain-based Dosdoce.com released an English-language version of its latest report, “New Business Models in the Digital Age.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Connect Books has delivered a “much improved” operational performance in the last six months, although sales were down 3% to £103.4m. The Norwich-based company, which comprises Bertrams, Dawson Books and Wordery, also saw its underlying operational profit decrease by 18.6% to £1.9m compared to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tesco has reported the worst results in its history – registering a pre-tax loss of £6.4bn in the last year. The UK supermarket, a big vendor of books, and currently being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office after it overstated its half-year profit forecast last August by £263m, sustained... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When the managers of indie giants Garbage asked photographer Pat Pope to use his pictures for no fee, he made a standA professional photographer for more than 20 years, and published in Q, Melody Maker and Rolling Stone, Pat Pope has worked with many of the biggest names in pop and rock music,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent booksellers continue to show their resilience. Jan Saley has recommitted to the bookstore she has operated for the past 38 years and is tripling its space. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The latest report, for the six-month period ending in February, hints at the tension that has marked Apple's monitorship thus far. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau, bookstore sales fell 2.2% in February compared to February 2014, dropping to $716 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Bernardine Evaristo fears ‘return to the literary invisibility of the past’ as research finds attempts to encourage diversity have stalledBlack and Asian authors in the UK say they are being shoehorned by a publishing industry which is almost blindingly white into writing fiction that... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The founders of the UK's Literary Platform reflect on the changes they've seen in digital publishing over the 5 years since launching their consultancy. The post London’s Literary Platform on A Half-Decade of Digital Change appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spain-based Dosdoce.com this week released an English language version of its 2014 report “New Business Models in the Digital Age.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Borough Press has pre-empted a sequel to Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It in a "high six-figure" deal. Executive publisher for fiction and non-fiction Kate Elton signed UK and Commonwealth rights to the book from Caroline Michel at PFD. North American rights were signed by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I Don’t Know How She Does It author returns to heroine Kate Reddy, now contending with age discrimination at work and ‘chaos’ at homeHelen Fielding returned us unexpectedly to the world of Bridget Jones two years ago, the eternal singleton now 51, widowed, and dipping a tentative toe into the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Holy Grail in the publishing world is to harness our ability to maintain a direct relationship with our customers when using various third-party data providers and applications. Publishers such as us – The Columbus Dispatch & ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook traffic is the new elixir of news publishers, but don’t write off The Drudge Report, a reliable traffic firehose since 1996. The Web 1.0 news aggregator sends millions of pageviews to publishers including The New York Times, Bloomberg and The Washington Post. Drudge outranks social... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook tracks everyone who visits its site, including people who don’t have an account, and even continues to track users and non-users who have opted out of targeted ads, researchers at two Belgian universities have found.Researchers at the University of Leuven in cooperation with researchers... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Revenues at WH Smith Ireland jumped 66% to €19.29m (£14.1m) in the year ending 31st August 2014 from €11.6m (£8.47m) for the same period the year before. The Irish Independent has seen accounts filed with the Companies Registration Office in Ireland, which shows that despite the revenue rise,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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