India’s youngest librarian. Bookboats in Sweden, Norway and, sadly no longer, in Finland
We Start The Day Global today with a look at floating libraries in Scandinavia and a free public...
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Author: Mark Williams
The San Diego Comic Con reminds us the attention economy is a two way street for the publishing industry, not an us-and-them battle of buzz-phrases
Tom Cruise. Natalie Portman, Patrick Stewart… The San Diego Comic Con has been dominated by celebrity news about the latest film, TV, comics and games. The attention economy in action, right? How can publishing compete in this brave new world?
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Storytel’s subscription royalties rose 6.4% in Q2. But is $0.20 per hour enough to keep publishers happy? Does the subscription model have a future?
At the start of this year Storytel changed its remuneration model for publishers, from a fixed...
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Big Bad Wolf announces first Thailand dates for 2019. Three million books to Bangkok
We don’t know for sure yet how many trips Big Bad Wolf will be making to Thailand this year,...
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India’s Coimbatore Book Fair launches amid more nonsense about how social media and smartphones are killing the reading habit. It really is time publishers took the blinkers off
Summer is a quiet time in the Indian book fair scene, with the mega-events that attract millions...
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