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As Virus Numbers Fall, Hopes Rise in Books Sector
“Over the last two decades of digital disruption and global economic meltdowns, the most important things to make for a good sales year [for the book business] were consumers with disposable income and a reasonable level of confidence in the economy,” says PW’s Andrew Albanese.
Publishers Compact Boosts UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
“Publishers are the catalysts of societal change. Through what we publish, we can not only influence agendas around sustainability today, but also in the many years to come,” says Michiel Kolman of Elsevier and IPA.
Six Seuss Titles “Hurtful and Wrong”
By providing children with diverse books, we open up the world to them and encourage their wonder and awe. And we show kids that diversity is the nature of humanity.
Pirates and Publishers
Forget what you learned about the origin of printing. Movable type using Chinese porcelain pegs was invented by Bi Sheng in 1040, four centuries before Gutenberg and his press. And where there is printing, there is copyright, too. So, yes, you can also forget that other myth, the one that says China and copyright are incompatible.
Cicilline Sees Amazon In Antitrust Focus
Times have changed, Rep. Cicilline said, and ‘we must level the playing field.’
Spreading The Word – Rights and Royalties For Podcasts And Spoken Word
Podcasts and other types of spoken word content are an especially rapidly growing category of streaming and downloadable audio.
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.
Ranking & Rebooting Publishing
A ranking of top players in publishing isn’t only a numbers game. Assessing the current state of the market in the middle of a pandemic and in the throes of digital transformation requires complex calculations far beyond spreadsheets.
Big Five Now Defendants in E-Book Price Fixing Case
Attorneys for the plaintiffs have said only that they look forward to proving what they see as a major e-boom price-fixing scam
