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Global book market valued at $143bn
Publishing Perspectives reports today on a new global book market study project, BookMap, which estimates the global book markets to be valued at 122 billion euros – that’s $143 bn USD. With the USA...
View ArticleEbooks grow, slowly, in France
The 4th KPMG Book Barometer is out, and offers a picture of gradual ebook development, with little indication the future will bring any emulation of the exponential growth we saw in the key Anglophone...
View ArticleInsights from Data Guy prior to the imminent next Author Earnings Report
When the Bowker ISBN report first emerged earlier this month The Passive Voice blog ran with the story, and the usual questions were raised in comments about the validity of the conclusions. Not to...
View ArticleCash for Kindle ebooks – Amazon goes local down in Acapulco
It’s been more than four years since Amazon launched in Mexico in 2013 with its spearhead Kindle ebook store, branching out into physical goods in 2015. This week Amazon finally bowed to the inevitable...
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Wattpad insights
As reported here last week, the Chinese e-commerce titan Tencent is throwing $40 million at Wattpad, at a time when Wattpad is seeing 60 million people a month use the site. Over at Publishing...
View ArticleTrad published author caught in KU scam. Amazon pulls her book and leaves...
It seems rarely a month passes without David Gaughran exposing how scammers are milking Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited, at the expense mainly of indie authors. Here, for example. Or here. And as often as...
View ArticleMicro-aggregators in Africa rise to meet growing demand from authors
Authors in the “First World” tend nowadays to take for granted that, even if they would really like a “trad-pub” deal and intend to try the agent-query route first, they have other options....
View ArticleMacmillan closing romance website as well as Pronoun. Is Macmillan romance...
Hard on the heels of the announcement that the self-publishing portal Pronoun was to close, Macmillan has announced on twitter that its consumer-facing romance website Heroes and Heartbreakers is to...
View ArticleDraft2Digital sees a “very large spike” as Pronoun authors migrate
The not altogether unexpected failure of the US-based distributor Pronoun dealt competitor aggregators an unexpected windfall this month StreetLib and PublishDrive both rushed to produce migration...
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Barnes & Noble removes manuscript editor from NookPress
NookPress, the self-publishing portal of the US bookstore Barnes & Noble, is “streamlining” the book upload process and will be removing its Manuscript Editor. NookPress is sending out the...
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The Hot Sheet Reviewed – first December 2017 edition
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter Anderson and Jane Friedman, and reviewed here every other Sunday as one of the best bi-weekly industry...
View Article2011: “Best Holiday Ever for Kindle.” 2017: Kindle device sales not...
As we start the fourth year without a new Kindle store, Amazon has issued its annual post-Holidays press release, extolling another successful sales season. That includes best-selling books and...
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Hekayh – The Arab world’s answer to Amazon KDP self publishing. In Sweden
When Mikael Norrman, CEO of Sweden’s Booqla (not to be confused with Spain’s Booqlab), found it heavy-going competing with the big American ebook service providers he looked around for a...
View ArticleAmazon KDP’s new 50% royalty option. Or was it an error?
Speculation abounds that Amazon KDP is to introduce a third royalty tier of 50%, alongside its current 35% and 70% choices, after the 50% option appeared in the KDP dashboard of some authors. An author...
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The Hot Sheet Reviewed – first January 2018 edition
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter Anderson and Jane Friedman, and reviewed here every other Sunday as one of the best bi-weekly industry...
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Is Japan’s Rakuten the second biggest player in the western ebook and...
I’ve long been a lone voice on the indie circuit advocating authors take digital libraries seriously. Admittedly back in 2011 it wasn’t so easy to get into OverDrive, but doing what isn’t easy is what...
View ArticleBooksellers Association and the Society of Authors advise indie authors on...
In what must be the definitive acknowledgement that self-publishing is mainstream in the UK, Britain’s Booksellers Association has teamed up with the Society of Authors to produce a guide for indie...
View ArticleApple’s ebook subscription service: the missing ingredient in Apple’s...
For a few minutes yesterday it looked like Apple might have been planning an ebook comeback, after having pretty much lost all enthusiasm for the iBooks store following the law suits against Apple and...
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StreetLib, PublishDrive and Bookwire gear up for the global ebook markets...
While the established American aggregators Smashwords, Draft2Digital, Bookbaby, etc, maintain their focus on their domestic market, with token efforts towards the international marketplace, their...
View ArticleStreetLib launches in India
The Italy-based aggregator StreetLib announces today that it is launching in India, with a partnership with India’s PubGen. The news comes hard on the heels of StreetLib’s new focus on the...
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