Listings magazine, which is the most popular paid-for title in UK, reported an average weekly sale of 1,374,813TV Choice has increased sales to a five-year high of almost 1.4 million, the biggest beneficiary among listings magazines from the demise of Richard Desmond's short-lived TV Pick.H Bauer-owned TV Choice, the most popular paid-for title in the UK, reported an average weekly sale of 1,374,813 in the six months to the end of December, the highest since the first half of 2008, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published on Thursday.This represented a sales surge of 7.2% compared to the first half of 2013 and 11.8% year-on-year.TV Choice appeared to be the biggest beneficiary of the demise of Northern & Shell's TV Pick, which closed in July after just 22 issues.Desmond's launch sparked a price war in the listings sector. TV Choice dropped from its usual 45p to as low as 20p at one point – with the H Bauer title putting on the sales boost while returning to its usual cover price."The legacy of the ill-fated TV Pick launch has only been a positive one for TV Choice," said publishing director Liz Watkinson. "Even as our cover price moved back up at the start of the autumn our readers, both new and existing, stayed with us."TV Choice's surge will leave executives at IPC Media, owner of the second biggest title, What's On TV, scratching their heads.In the space of 12 months What's On TV has gone from touching distance of overtaking its... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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Mills & Boon has seen a sharp rise in sales of its ebooks after Kobo matched W H Smith’s in-store offer online. W H Smith has been running a “five for the price of four” offer on Mills & Boon titles throughout February, and its digital partner Kobo applied the offer to the same titles’... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has launched Kindle Textbook Creator in the US, allowing academics to turn their textbooks into digital editions. KDP EDU, a new segment of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), gives educators and authors the online tools to prepare, publish and promote e-textbooks and other educational... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I’m worried it will cost too much and don’t know what cover price to chargeEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Northern and Shells Star reports 19% drop in print sales the biggest faller in the womens weekly market Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins and Ingram have teamed up with BookShout, a direct-to-consumer ebook platform, to set up a bundling program that lets independent bookstores offer customers physical and digital editions of a book. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dispute has also dragged in authors including JK Rowling and James PattersonIt is another mystery for inspector Rebus to solve. Why is Amazon UK selling Saints of the Shadow Bible, the latest instalment of Ian Rankin's best-selling series about the Edinburgh sleuth, for half the price being... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Competition from digital editions has put pressure on more than one bricks-and-mortar retailer, and that trend is largely behind the decision by Hastings Entertainment to find a merger partner, according to documents filed by the company in connection with its pending acquisition by Joel... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DC Entertainment’s list of serialized superhero comics will now be available for sale on Google Play along with digital editions of DC and Vertigo original graphic novels and collected editions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Satirical title has a print circulation of more than 220,000, ahead of The Economist and The WeekPrivate Eye held on to the number one spot among news magazines in the second half of 2013 with a print circulation of more than 220,000, ahead of The Economist and The Week.Ian Hislop's satirical... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Listings magazine, which is the most popular paid-for title in UK, reported an average weekly sale of 1,374,813TV Choice has increased sales to a five-year high of almost 1.4 million, the biggest beneficiary among listings magazines from the demise of Richard Desmond's short-lived TV Pick.H... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Bauer's Closer, Hearst's Best and IPC's Now, and OK! all record double-digit falls, year on yearRichard Desmond's Star magazine has jumped into the top 10 biggest sellers in the women's weeklies market, after reporting a 16.5% sales surge in the second half of 2013.But there were double digit... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The media-industrial complex loves nothing so much as an anniversary -- especially a grim anniversary. Considering that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is an event that not only radically transformed our nation but the media itself, it's no surprise that the 50th anniversary of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Print media is dying; some may argue it is already dead. With the launch of the iPad and the current industry trend of tablet media consumption, consumers don’t want to clutter their homes with stacks of paper magazines and newspapers. Not to mention, there is the trend of "going green" which is... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book reading is becoming more common, and one way publishers are trying to take advantage of the growth in the use of digital readers is by plumbing their backlists, refurbishing classic and forgotten literature with new digital editions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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 at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The magazine industry’s faith in the future of tablets is not easing up, even though advertiser support for digital editions has been slow in coming and these platforms still represent a small fraction of overall distribution for most books. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adobe has released Adobe Digital Editions 2.0, its freeware application for managing ebooks on a PC or Mac. Digital Editions is required for transferring protected eBook files to compatible mobile eBook Readers using Adobe’s EPUB and PDF standards. Version 2.0 includes accessibility support for... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fiscal 2012 was a good year made great by The Hunger Games,” Scholastic chairman Dick Robinson told analysts in a conference call last Thursday to discuss results in the year ended May 31, in which sales rose 14%, to $2.15 billion, and net income jumped from $39.4 million to $102.4 million. The... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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GfK MRI's latest Survey of the American Consumer reveals an unsurprising drop-off in print readership, along with a glimmer of hope from digital editions. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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