Best of VOC: COVID, Publishing and the Future
The surprises from COVID-19 aren’t always unwelcome ones. The arrival of effective vaccines is one such miracle. The good health of the publishing industry is yet another – at least for now.
Post-Pandemic Educational Publishing
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, teachers and parents fear the COVID slide.
Bookselling’s Top Players
In 2020, books and bookstores found ways to capture and hold the public’s attention.
Cicilline Sees Amazon In Antitrust Focus
Times have changed, Rep. Cicilline said, and ‘we must level the playing field.’
Outside US, Book World Has Mixed 2020
In Germany, a boom in book sales for the first half of December was followed by a stringent lockdown that crushed the holiday market.
COVID, Publishing and the Future
The surprises from COVID-19 aren’t always unwelcome ones. The arrival of effective vaccines is one such miracle. The good health of the publishing industry is yet another – at least for now.
Uncertainty For 2021 As Pandemic Lingers
The value of a bookstore is going to the bookstore. To change from that model to an online business model means staff and other business changes that place independent booksellers in direct competition with Amazon.
Up for 2020, Book Business Braces for 2021
Publishers finished 2020 pretty much how they carried all of the year—with strong sales.
Best of: Publishers Help Kids With Homework
School districts are looking for content that goes both ways – online as well as in print.
BookExpo Is “Retired”
ReedPop has announced that book publishing shows BookExpo and BookCon are being “retired.”