Week Two: $1.99 Ebook Sale
Melville House
It’s week two of our $1.99 ebook sale and we have a new list of titles—fiction and nonfiction—for you to pick from! Hope everyone’s staying healthy and at least… Read more »
Sales
Surge in sales of “difficult” books during worldwide lockdowns
Tom Clayton
A few months ago… no, weeks? Last week?! Are you kidding me, last week, a meme went around reminding everyone that Shakespeare (probably, maybe) wrote King Lear while in the 16th-century equivalent of lockdown, from… Read more »
Our top ten bestselling novels now $1.99 for ebook editions!
Melville House
For the next week our top ten bestselling fiction ebooks are just $1.99. (Ebooks only, folks.) From classics like Every Man Dies Alone to newer favorites like Juliet the Maniac, there’s something for… Read more »
London indies get on their bikes, bringing books to the people
Tom Clayton
What more can be said about this unknown territory? In the midst of a global pandemic, nothing feels certain or stable. On a daily basis, we are battered with unprecedented,… Read more »
Simon & Schuster is “not a core asset” says CEO as publishing giant is put up for sale
Nikki Griffiths
The “Big Five” publishers dominate the US book market. Together, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan total over 80% of the trade publishing market. Now it… Read more »
Petersfield Bookshop gets online boost after “tumbleweed” tweet
Tom Clayton
In January-is-frigging-awful-let’s-have-some-good-news news, The Guardian and others reported The Petersfield Bookshop’s welcome injection of online orders, following a singularly heartbreaking tweet. The shop, which specialises in antiquarian books, maps and other… Read more »
Chicago Review Press acquires Amberjack Publishing
Christina Cerio
A fact of life in publishing is that big publishers will acquire small publishers and keep them open as an imprint, which builds a complex web of companies that exist… Read more »
Do soaring audiobook sales mean the physical book’s days are numbered?
Nikki Griffiths
The good news: audiobooks are doing well! Sales rose by 43% in the UK last year according to The Publishers Association (PA) Publishing Yearbook, and 37% in the US according… Read more »
The cause for publisher and bookseller panic in Germany
Christina Cerio
Shelf Awareness shared a report by Anja Sieg of buchreport on the status of the massive German book wholesaler and distributor Koch, Neff and Volckmar (KNV). According to Sieg, KNV… Read more »
Slow and steady wins the race
Michael Seidlinger
It’s February. I know. We’re barely a quarter of the way into 2019 and it already feels like we’ve lived through three years. Things feel slow. Book sales reflect the… Read more »