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The Authors Guild Claims Author Income is Down
Sorry to keep beating an old drum, but a new survey report on author incomes was released late last week, and it is just as useless as the previous ones. On Saturday The Authors Guild reported that...
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When the Publisher Drops the Ball, Or, YA Author Pulls Debut Novel Following...
Q: When is an outrage not an outrage? A When the publisher screws up, and hands reviewers a book that wasn't ready. The hot story this week in the publishing industry was Amélie Wen Zhao’s Blood Heir....
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The “eBooks Are Dead” Nonsense Has Spread to Australia
If there's one constant in the news industry it's that there's no end to bad coverage on any given topic, including ebooks. Sometimes the bad reporting is the result of journalists not taking the time...
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When Has Writing a Book Ever Not Been an Elitist Pursuit?
On Tuesday The Guardian engaged in the book world's favorite pastime. No, not ebook-bashing. No, not baseless Amazon fear-mongering. (Let me try this again.) On Tuesday The Guardian engaged in the...
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The Whole “Library eBooks Kill Retail eBook Sales” Idea Makes No Sense
I was working on a blog post this morning on Scholastic ebooks being in OverDrive when I got to thinking about the current uproar over library ebooks. It seems a lot of people in publishing are...
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UK Audiobook Revenues to Eclipse eBook Revenues in 2020, and Other...
Back in 2014 everyone was excitedly repeating the claim that Amazon made up half of the UK's online retail. This idea lasted until about ten minutes after I fact checked it and found out there was no...
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Are You Ready For The Next eBook Boom?
The legacy book publishing industry is fond of telling itself comforting myths. For example, one myth that just crossed my desk was the idea that younger readers preferred print books over ebooks. This...
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The eBook Revolution Never Happened, and Other Comforting Myths
Have you read the ten-year retrospective on the ebook revolution that Vox published a few weeks back? Go read it, and then come back here so I can point out what they missed. The thing about that...
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27% of Americans Have Not Read a Book in The Past Year (That Year Was 2018)
Earlier today a certain blog known for not crediting their sources reported that a quarter of Americans had not read a book in the past year. While that factoid was true at one point, it is now so...
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The Authors Guild Rehashes Bogus Author Income Survey as a “New” Report
Earlier this week The Publishers Authors Guild released a report that "explores the factors leading to the decline in the writing profession. Alas, this report is based on the flawed survey that I...
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Print Sales Down at the End of April – NPD
I am about a week late on reporting this story, but while I was catching up on news Sunday morning I noticed that a Publishers Weekly report on book sales needs a second look. I thought it was worth...
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