TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » publishing industry http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 09 Mar 2014 08:29:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Book Patrol proclaims undeath of the book http://www.teleread.com/books/book-patrol-proclaims-undeath-of-the-book/ http://www.teleread.com/books/book-patrol-proclaims-undeath-of-the-book/#comments Wed, 25 Dec 2013 00:36:58 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=104053 I’m not sure whether any of us pro-ebook pundits was actually expecting the death of the printed book, but it seems a lot of people thought we were. So much so that Book Patrol has decided it should proclaim that “The Worst is Over and The Book is not Dead.” Rumors of the rumors of [...]

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New Publisher House self-publishing report hardly fails to hype http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/new-publisher-house-self-publishing-report-hardly-fails-to-hype/ http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/new-publisher-house-self-publishing-report-hardly-fails-to-hype/#comments Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:30:01 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=97530 The new report from New Publisher House, State of Independence 2014, subtitled “The Self-Publishing Market: $52 Billion Game Changer,” talks about … well … self-publishing being a $52 billion game changer. Not hard to get your head round that one. And if you want to get the story in full, the opening section of the [...]

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Ebook Publisher Power Rankings: Who got the power? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/ebook-publisher-power-rankings-who-got-the-power/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/ebook-publisher-power-rankings-who-got-the-power/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:42:43 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=92300 The latest quarterly edition of the Digital Book World Ebook Publisher Power Rankings—one of those ratings league tables that corporates love—has appeared, with some welcome news for a couple of the industry’s biggest names—and some less welcome data for them on how well people with no money and corporate might behind them are doing at snarfing [...]

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Victoria Barnsley’s HarperCollins exit and the content conundrum http://www.teleread.com/harpercollins/victoria-barnsleys-harpercollins-exit-and-the-content-conundrum/ http://www.teleread.com/harpercollins/victoria-barnsleys-harpercollins-exit-and-the-content-conundrum/#comments Sat, 06 Jul 2013 18:05:05 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=89326 Victoria Barnsley, Chief Executive and Publisher at HarperCollins UK since 2000, announced her unexpected exit earlier this week. According to the report in the UK’s The Bookseller, expanded on the circumstances and on her own view of her profession in a valedictory speech at the annual HarperCollins author party, held this year in the Orangery [...]

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Frankfurt Book Fair survey finds media sector in state of runny flux http://www.teleread.com/statistics/frankfurt-book-fair-survey-finds-media-sector-in-state-of-runny-flux/ http://www.teleread.com/statistics/frankfurt-book-fair-survey-finds-media-sector-in-state-of-runny-flux/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:45:07 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=89201 A just-released survey of media industry opinion, conducted under the auspices of the Frankfurt Book Fair in the long lead-up to the European publishing industry’s number one event in October, finds the media sector caught on the cusp between past and future, and highly uncertain about which way things will go. Carried out by Frankfurt StoryDrive [...]

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Penguin Random House email turns on the schmaltz for agents http://www.teleread.com/random-house/penguin-random-house-turns-on-the-schmaltz-for-its-agents/ http://www.teleread.com/random-house/penguin-random-house-turns-on-the-schmaltz-for-its-agents/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:47:33 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=88741 A kindly correspondent shared with me an email signed by Markus Dohle, CEO of the newly-merged Penguin Random House, that has been circulated to the new mega-publisher’s agents—in the same spirit as Bertelsmann’s welcoming website banner pictured above. Here is the full text for your edification: To Our Literary Agents, Today, I am proud to [...]

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The Problem with Children’s Books: A Parent’s Perspective http://www.teleread.com/books/the-problem-with-childrens-books-a-parents-perspective/ http://www.teleread.com/books/the-problem-with-childrens-books-a-parents-perspective/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:04:10 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=80034 We recently had our Family Day long weekend, and the Beloved and I spent some of it at the home of his sister. She’s the mother of a toddler and a newborn, and while we were visiting, the subject of books came up. I enjoyed having the opportunity to pick the brain of a parent [...]

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A Radical Proposal: Let’s Make Books Fun Again! http://www.teleread.com/books/a-radical-proposal-lets-make-books-fun-again/ http://www.teleread.com/books/a-radical-proposal-lets-make-books-fun-again/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:00:28 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=79586 I read a lot of news stories as part of my work for TeleRead, and lately, I’ve noticed that many are dominated by a decidedly gloomy tone. Apple gets sued. Readers get sued. All five of the big publishers get sued. Then there are the copyright squabbles, the fair use disputes, author’s rights, reader’s rights, corporate [...]

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2013 Meeting Guide: At the publishing industry trade shows, hope and opportunity spring eternal http://www.teleread.com/events/2013-meeting-guide-at-the-publishing-industry-trade-shows-hope-and-opportunity-spring-eternal/ http://www.teleread.com/events/2013-meeting-guide-at-the-publishing-industry-trade-shows-hope-and-opportunity-spring-eternal/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:54:39 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=77202 By Eugene G. Schwartz Where is the book industry going; what will my workplace and career opportunities be like; what do I need to know to keep up with the times? Or, in a more cosmic vein, what does the future hold? In an effort to answer these questions, publishers have settled each year into [...]

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Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is Actually Adapting Well http://www.teleread.com/books/ignore-the-doomsayers-the-book-industry-is-actually-adapting-well/ http://www.teleread.com/books/ignore-the-doomsayers-the-book-industry-is-actually-adapting-well/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:45:58 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=74178   Numbers show that the publishing industry is handling the rise of e-readers better than what folk knowledge might suggest. The fall publishing season is in full swing. There can hardly have been a year with more luminaries atop both the fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists; J. K. Rowling, Michael Chabon, Ken Follett, Junot Diaz, [...]

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Mike Shatzkin warns against letting bookstores fade away http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/mike-shatzkin-warns-against-letting-bookstores-fade-away/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/mike-shatzkin-warns-against-letting-bookstores-fade-away/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/mike-shatzkin-warns-against-letting-bookstores-fade-away/ What will the publishing industry look like if all physical bookstores go the way of Borders? Publishing-industry observer Mike Shatzkin doesn’t know, but he thinks publishers shouldn’t want to find out for as long as possible. Some publishers report that the growth rate of e-book sales seems to be tapering off, However, other publishers report [...]

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Publishing industry may not be falling apart after all http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/publishing-industry-may-not-be-falling-apart-after-all/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/publishing-industry-may-not-be-falling-apart-after-all/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:41:22 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/publishing-industry-may-not-be-falling-apart-after-all/ Is publishing doomed? Writer Janni Lee Simner has posted an essay to her LiveJournal looking at the idea going around “that Right Now is the moment that publishing is falling apart.” She is rather skeptical, because she’s been hearing how much better things were "5 or 10 or 15 years ago” for as long as [...]

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Survey finds publishing industry revenues and sales up since 2008 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/survey-finds-publishing-industry-revenues-and-sales-up-since-2008/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/survey-finds-publishing-industry-revenues-and-sales-up-since-2008/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:48:04 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/survey-finds-publishing-industry-revenues-and-sales-up-since-2008/ Is the impending doom of the publishing industry being overstated? That’s what a New York Times article contends with data from a survey released Tuesday that purports to show the publishing industry’s revenues and sales grew overall from 2008 to 2010. BookStats, a comprehensive survey conducted by two major trade groups that was released early [...]

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Borders closure heralds uncertainty for publishing industry http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/borders-closure-heralds-uncertainty-for-publishing-industry/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/borders-closure-heralds-uncertainty-for-publishing-industry/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:07:22 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/borders-closure-heralds-uncertainty-for-publishing-industry/ What is the loss of Borders going to mean for the publishing industry? There are a number of prognoses, ranging from “probably not much” to “gloom, doom, and dogs and cats living together”. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, but it’s interesting to look at all the predictions. Former Borders UK chief Philip [...]

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Jürgen Snoeren: Publishing industry should focus on core competency http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/jrgen-snoeren-publishing-industry-should-focus-on-core-competency/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/jrgen-snoeren-publishing-industry-should-focus-on-core-competency/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 15:54:36 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/jrgen-snoeren-publishing-industry-should-focus-on-core-competency/ One view of the future of publishing, which I’ve brought up here a few times, is that publishers need to begin reaching out directly to consumers. On FutureBook, Amsterdam-based publishing exec Jürgen Snoeren disagrees, suggesting that in the rapidly changing publishing environment, publishers need to focus first on their core competency—producing excellent content. Snoeren points [...]

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