New ebook tracking and analytics platform demonstrated at DBW
UK ebook discovery company Jellybooks has demonstrated its ebook tracking and analytics platform at the Digital Book World (DBW) conference in New York, reports the Digital Reader. The platform encourages...
US book sales relatively flat in 2013
In the US, book sales were relatively flat in 2013, falling by less than 1% from US$27.12 billion (A$28.8 billion) in 2012 to US$27.01 billion (A$28.7 billion) in 2013, according to statistics from BookStats, reports...
Bowker reveals 422% increase in self-published titles since 2007
In an analysis of US ISBN data, Bowker has revealed that 391,000 self-published titles were published in 2012, which is an increase of 59% over 2011 and 422% over 2007....
Book industry salary survey 2013
This year, Books+Publishing surveyed members of the Australian book industry to find out exactly how much workers are getting paid. Andrea Hanke and Andrew Wrathall report on the results. It’s...
Report reveals global ebook trends
Publishing consultant Rüdiger Wischenbart has released his latest report into global ebook trends, ‘Global eBook: A Report on Market Trends and Developments’, which estimates ebook penetration by country using data from previously published reports. According...
Ebooks in Oz: the stats
In January 2012, Bowker Market Research conducted a survey addressing the emerging ebook market in Australia and nine other countries, including the US, UK, India, Brazil and Japan. We share...
BISG releases PwC report into Australian book industry
The Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) has made public a research report commissioned from Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) entitled Cover to cover: a market analysis of the Australian book industry....
Nielsen: volume up, value down; indies gaining share
Shaun Symonds, general manager Nielsen Bookscan, presented recent Nielsen sales data at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Monday 25 July. Data from the first 24 weeks to June showed sales were...
In brief
Leading Edge ConferenceThe Leading Edge Books National Conference will be held this weekend, 6-8 March, in Hobart. Over 80 independent booksellers will be attending, and many publishers and authors will...
Australian small presses ‘publishing, not perishing’
New research into Australian small presses shows a ‘strong, passionate core' to the sector despite an acute lack of resources.A recent survey of the Australian small and independent publishing sector...
Local online booksellers growing market share
A new report commissioned by Bookseller+Publisher from internet traffic monitors Hitwise has shown that Australian-based book retail websites are slowly growing their market share to compete against Amazon.‘While Amazon continues to...
WBN post-Xmas survey
WBN published the results of its post-Christmas survey as a Special Bulletin last Friday, showing that over 90% of those surveyed had an ‘excellent' or ‘good' Christmas. For the full...
Post-Christmas survey shows an uncommonly good Christmas
The results of WBN's post-Christmas survey are in, with over 90% of Australia's booksellers reporting that the Christmas season of 2007-08 has been either 'excellent' (51%) or 'good' (41%). Only...
In brief
Stephen King mistaken for ‘vandal' in Alice SpringsThe bestselling author Stephen King was mistaken for a book vandal when he began signing copies of his latest book Lisey's Story at...