Supply Chain Worries for Holiday Book Sales
Supply chain issues facing the book business this holiday season and beyond were years in the making.
Licensing Comes to Podcasting
Producing podcasts has never have been more lucrative. For top-shelf creators, producers, distributors and platforms, podcasting may be an end in itself – or it can serve as a bridge to film, television, and publishing.
Ranks of Top Publishers in 2020 Announced
55 publishing groups with combined reported revenue for 2020 of nearly $68 billion are included in this year’s ranking. Total 2020 revenue is down about 6% from 2019, though a significant portion of that decline is owing to currency fluctuations.
Data Direction for Publishers
“You’re not only a book buyer, consumer, reader, or a consumer of other media. What we saw in our data was that those that were avid in books were avid across other media,” says Dr. Rachel Noorda,
Amazon & Big 5 Tell Judge: No Conspiracy Here
“The alleged conspiracy—in which the five largest American trade publishers are alleged to have banded together to give Amazon monopoly pricing power over e-books—fundamentally makes no sense.”
A Decade of Podcasting
CCC and PW are marking today the Tenth Anniversary of our weekly conversation together.
A 9/11 Tribute
After 20 years, Publishers Weekly writers and editors are recalling 9/11. “The PW staff did a remarkable job capturing early reactions to the historic event,” says editorial director Jim Milliot.
“That Morning Was a Little Crazy”
What happened to Gonzalez was a transient ischemic attack (TIA), also called, “a mini-stroke.”
Can Substack Succeed At Serialization?
Serialization efforts may soon have a greater impact on the book business, reaching readers not inclined to browse a bookstore.
Saving Copyright for UK Authors & Publishers
In June, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office announced it will look at changes to the exhaustion of intellectual property rights. Essentially, exhaustion of IP rights is a limit on the control that copyright holders and others have over physical distribution of their works, such as books, in markets around the world.