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Continue reading →: Travel Book Sales: This Has To Be The Internet
The Bookseller carries an absolutely terrifying story today if you are in travel publishing, on the other hand if you are, the sales are probably pretty clear to you already: This year travel sales have fallen 10.7% to £22,386,597 (to 17th April) compared to the same period last year. This…
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Continue reading →: Wisden: Another Clever Bloomsbury Brand
Bloomsbury has featured on these pages a number of times. To my mind, too much of the focus on Bloomsbury is about Potter and Rowling. When I’ve been interested in Bloomsbury it is generally for their clever acquisitions and what I perceive as a well developed but poorly reported strategy…
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Continue reading →: The iPad Hits The UK (and some other places too)
It’s on sale now! The company’s website is warning that iPad orders made now will not be sent out until 7 June. It sold more than 1m iPads in the US in the first 100 days after the April launch, making it a faster seller than the iPhone. Here Welcome…
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Continue reading →: Amazon Creates Translation Publishing Imprint: AmazonCrossing
In many ways this is a fairly sensible move from Amazon: Similar to AmazonEncore, Amazon’s first publishing imprint, AmazonCrossing uses customer feedback and other data from Amazon sites around the world to identify exceptional books deserving of a wider, global audience. AmazonCrossing will acquire the rights and translate the books…
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