Today In Book Publishing
November 18, 2016 at 4:20 pm
Volumes of printed pages will decrease significantly over the next four years, according to an IT Strategies study. VP of IT Strategies Marco Boer told attendees at yesterday’s Digital Book Printing Conference that the volume of printed pages will decline 7.4% from 2007 to 2020, totaling over 5 billion pages lost. As demand for print…
November 17, 2016 at 8:30 am
An intensely divisive election cycle like the one we just experienced seems to have more losers than winners. And there's no doubt that among those losers is "the media." A September Gallup poll shows that Americans' trust of the media was at an all-time low. Only 32% say they have "a great deal" or "a…
November 16, 2016 at 8:30 am
In 2015 Robb Report saw an opportunity to increase revenue by launching a daily newsletter, Robb Report Insider. The goal of the daily newsletter was to curate the vast amount of content Robb Report produces daily into a handful of stories that would best capture readers’ interests, explained VP of digital web initiatives David Dubrino…
November 15, 2016 at 2:11 pm
John Makinson will retire as chairman of Penguin Random House at the end of the year, and will be succeeded by Philip Hoffman. Makinson had been CEO of the Penguin Group prior to its merger with Random House. Following the merger, Makinson was named chairman of the trade publisher…
October 13, 2016 at 8:30 am
Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, deciding whether to accept full-cost publishing grants that require open digital editions of long-form humanities and social sciences (HSS) monographs may prove to be the most important challenge university presses face over the next twelve months. While open access (OA) has been a feature of the scholarly publishing landscape for quite some…
November 11, 2016 at 10:00 am
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's interim CEO Gordon Crovitz expressed his disappointment last week in the education publisher's poor Q3 performance. The quarterly results revealed a 7% drop in sales and a 31% decline in net income compared to Q3 2015. Crovitz said in a recent press release that his attention is now set squarely on growth:…
November 10, 2016 at 2:19 pm
Today Lagardère, the parent company of the Hachette Book Group, released its third quarter finances for 2016. The U.S.-based Hachette Book Group saw a 12.9% revenue gain thanks to the positive reception of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Hachette U.K. revenue was up 30.1%, again due to the release of the latest Harry Potter…
October 13, 2016 at 5:14 pm
In 2004, I struck out on my own as a consultant. I set up a website and email account that used my name in both. I set up a Google News alert so that I would get notifications when my company was mentioned on the web. And I started getting mail -- email and physical…
November 8, 2016 at 3:10 pm
Every publisher represents a storehouse of interesting content that can be used to attract readers, capture email subscribers, and increase book sales. In past articles, I’ve written about these concepts and reasons why publishers should invest in inexpensive digital marketing tactics. Free content attracts readers who become email subscribers. Those email subscribers can be converted…
November 7, 2016 at 11:46 am
At first I thought it was an SNL parody about ebooks for kids. We’re so addicted to info snacking, seemingly less able (and interested) in focusing on long form reading, so let’s create a new platform that helps foster even shorter attention spans for our kids. Amazon Rapids is nothing more than a series of…
