Mesopotamia Book Fair underway
No, no stone tablets and cuneiform. This is modern day Mesopotamia. Running December 16-24, the...
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Author: Mark Williams
Storytel Italy subscribers up 20% in 2023
No subscriber numbers, but confirmation that Storytel Italy, which launched in 2018, still has its...
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USA – OverDrive downloads up 55% on 2021, but no real numbers and some implausible extrapolations
In 2021, OverDrive reported (January 2022) 506 million downloads globally. A 55% increase on that...
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Phonics – A ticking time-bomb for English-language publishers
In 2019 one in four children were leaving primary school unable to read properly. In England, the...
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UK – Faber reports “an excellent year”. Somehow managed to ride out the “longer term challenges” and “increasing cost pressures” that so troubled PRH UK
Interesting to contrast news from PRH UK and its “role” eliminations, with news from...
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