The Dutch experience, and the emerging picture from Spotify, shows very clearly there is room for all models, and that publishers and authors that eschew one or the other are simply missing out.
“I’ve launched, failed and relaunched; here are the crucial lessons I’ve learned.”
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The Society of Authors believes genocide in Ukraine must be condemned, but genocide in Gaza is not part of its remit. And now the SoA has an official “mandate” to look the other way.
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The Dutch experience, and the emerging picture from Spotify, shows very clearly there is room for all models, and that publishers and authors that eschew one or the other are simply missing out.
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Here’s a suggestion to get you started, Adam. Pop along to an industry fair as a visitor...
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In 2010 the six biggest English-speaking African countries had a combined internet population of...
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The partnership creates “a pairing uniquely positioned to deliver the optimum experience for...
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What happens at LBF stays at LBF. Why are most industry book fairs in the mid-2020s still partying like its 1999?
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Amazon has no time for most SE Asia markets, and that has allowed Thai publishers to embrace digital options on their own terms.
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The Philippines has 37 million more people online than the UK, and 23 million more than Germany, both of which have thriving digital books sectors driven in large part by social media.
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History suggests the payout will hover around the $49 million per month mark during H1 and climb a...
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Not, of course, that we in the west are in any position to assume the moral high ground, given the recent track record in the United States for banning children’s books.
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Those of you desperately wanting to be offended or outraged by my TNPS op-eds will have to simmer...
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Did the Dhaka event pull in more than Cairo 2024, which this year clocked a record 4.6 million visitors?
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With London and Bologna fast approaching, Frankfurt’s October dates seems an eternity away, but there will be hybrid digital rights sessions in September, and an early Bird discount is on offer.
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The best practices will probably be somewhere in between. “Publishing professionals should...
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The 4th Iraq International Book Fair runs February 14 through 24 this year. Details are sparse at...
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There is no “free” involved. You pay money and then get a choice of content and...
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Where it gets interesting is that just days before these results were announced, an investment company called Trilogy (Trilogy Retail Holdings Inc. and Trilogy Investments L.P) offered to “buy all company stock its joint actors do not currently own, for C$2.25 in cash per common share.”
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“But it turned out those artsy Scandinavian films really were just artsy Scandinavian films, not documentaries. This was more disappointing for my friends than for me.”
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Both events were, from conception, fatally flawed – book fairs run for profit by outsiders, for an industry the organisers never fully understood or cared about.
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