Missionaries
In the early noughties, The Bookseller ran an occasional series on “real booksellers”. Written by our former retail correspondent Richard Lewis, the idea was to seek out “the unsung heroes of...
View Article2015: The shape of things to come
This time last year I wrote that we were just beginning to see the future shape of conglomerate publishing as the merger of Random House and Penguin rolled on, and the two other giants in the UK...
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Publishers' Forum in Berlin: 'Reconstructing Publishing'
The 2015 edition of Publishers' Forum opened Monday (27th April) in Berlin with a determined tagline and programming to match: "How to Reconstruct Publishing: Competing Visions, Channels, and...
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Scribd makes cuts to romance in its catalog
Scribd has announced to publishers and distributors that it is "making some adjustments, particularly to romance" in its $8.99-per-month ebook subscription service. Described by Mark Coker, founder and...
View ArticleLet's hear it for the publishers
Since forever, publishers have been criticised. It's all part of the job. Publishers are ripping off authors. Publishers are maltreating booksellers. Publishers publish tosh. Publishers don't take...
View ArticleThe EU strait-jacket
The economic decline of the European Union is the central fact of our age. Every continent on the planet is growing except Antarctica and Europe. Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas have all...
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Nibbie returns for exports as overseas business rises
Perhaps there are fresh signs to be heeded by key parts of the UK publishing industry when it considers its international business: in the wake of a record proportion of turnover coming from markets...
View ArticleThe book trade map
This week, our colleagues on book trade magazines internationally share data on the past year in their own markets—some with confirmed statistics, and some using early estimates that still give a...
View ArticleThe e-book vaccine?
Despite the fact that so much entertainment content is now digitally delivered, physical books - at least up until this point - have continued to outpace the sales of e-books.Yet as coronavirus rips...
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Trade in transition waits on White House
Book business citizens, like all Americans, are on tenterhooks. Lines of the masked and not-very-distanced wait patiently (especially for New Yorkers), standing two, three, five hours to enter polling...
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