Some titles fall up to 39% as publishers grapple with selling copies with shops shut and transport hubs closedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePrint sales for the UK’s biggest national newspapers slumped by as much as 39% last month, as the coronavirus lockdown shut high streets and kept the nation at home.The Financial Times and the i newspaper reported the biggest decline in circulation, down 39% and 38%, respectively. The decline of circulation of the i was exacerbated by the cessation of the distribution of bulks, free copies, to locations including airports, gyms and railway stations. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Hachette UK saw overall sales fall by 6.7% in the fourth quarter of the year due to lower ebook sales, with its parent company Lagardere Publishing saying that "market trends have reversed in the US and the UK". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unit sales were up by 1%, according to BookNet Canada, while ebook sales remained at the same level they reached in 2013. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2015 print bestseller list was topped, not surprisingly, by Harper Lee’s first new book in 55 years, "Go Set a Watchman," which was announced in February and went on sale in July. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book sales have remained stagnant in 2015. But print book sales are up, and Harper Lee's latest novel and adult coloring books are the big winners. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newsfeed aggregator included in iOS 9.1 update features content from the BBC, Telegraph, Times, Guardian, Sun and Sky NewsApple’s News app has launched in the UK with a range of publisher partners including the BBC, Telegraph, Guardian, Sun and Sky News.The Apple News app, which aims to... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some of the UK’s most famous authors and publishers are donating their earnings from book sales to raise £1m for Syrian refugees. The post UK Authors, Publishers Donate Book Sales to Syrian Refugees appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paula Hawkins’ bestseller leads a crop of psychological thrillers, in a top 20 dominated by womenDark psychological thrillers dominate the list of the year’s bestselling ebooks unveiled by Amazon, with MP Nadine Dorries making it into a line-up composed almost entirely of female writers.The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales at Hachette UK were down 3.5% in the first six months of 2015 compared to the year before, because of a “slate of new releases that was not as strong as the first half of 2014”, according to results announced by Hachette's parent company Lagardere. E-books represented 33% of sales in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harper Lee’s ‘parent novel’ to To Kill a Mockingbird sets tills ringing despite ambivalent receptionDespite the widespread doubts over the decision to publish Go Set A Watchman, and despite the cries of horror that went up around the world over the weekend as readers discovered that the godlike... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After a downturn in fiction sales, Abingdon is closing its fiction program and broadening its Christian Living line. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's UK website sales rose by 14% to £5.3bn last year, but the company also paid less in corporation tax and received more handouts in government grants. According to accounts filed in the US, net sales for the UK website were £5.3bn ($8.3bn) to the year ending December 2014, up from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Egmont Book Publishing has reported soaring sales and profits at Egmont UK, thanks partly to the success of Minecraft. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK has changed the structure of its sales team, merging its adult and children's teams. The sales structure will now be split into two divisions, with one focusing on bookshop, online and digital sales, and the other targeting mass market and special sales. As part of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK has announced a new sales structure, bringing together the adult and children's teams while creating two divisions organized by channels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has started booking sales made to customers in the UK through the UK branch, instead of diverting sales through Luxembourg. The company’s new arrangements came into force on 1st May. Previously retail sales have been recorded in Luxembourg, where Amazon has its European headquarters,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - The Independent Press newspaper, a local news staple since the 1960s, will publish its last weekly hard copy edition on May 27, according to multiple TAPinto.net sources. Paul Provost, vice president of loca ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales at Hachette UK fell 4% year-on-year for the first quarter of 2015, partially due to an “unfavourable” VAT effect on ebooks, parent company Lagardere has said. Hachette UK said it had “steady sales in print and digital” in the first quarter of the year, with its performance “broadly in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing industry data for 2014 spills the beans on decline in biography and cookbook sales, while children’s literature in print rises by 10%Publishers used to have a simple recipe for a bestseller: sign up a celebrity or a TV chef and get the book out for Christmas.Not any more. The latest... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch group, which publishes Sun, Times and Wall Street Journal, partly blames currency fluctuations, as book publishing division reports growthRupert Murdoch’s News Corp has seen a 52% year-on-year fall in its third-quarter profits as its newspaper advertising revenue continued to... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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