According to a recent survey from the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group, sales of ebooks more than doubled in 2011 to $2.07 billion for the US publishing industry. Digital sales grew from $869 million in 2010. Last year, ebooks accounted for roughly 6 percent of overall publishing revenues. The survey [...]
Independent Bookstores Can Survive
January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
So how can the little guy – the local bookstore – compete with the likes of Amazon? Some market analysts speculate that Amazon sales will account for 50 percent of all book sales in the US by the end of 2012, which is stunning since book-selling has actually become the minority revenue stream for Amazon [...]
Publishing Push coming from Apple
January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Apple could be hosting a special media event in New York City this month. The event won’t be about Apple’s next iPad if reports are believed to be correct. Instead, Apple will be talking directly to the publishing industry. The theme of the event will be publishing and e-books. Considering reports indicate Eddy Cue will [...]
Maverick’s Owner Mark Cuban publishing e-book
December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Rather than working with a traditional publisher, controversial billionaire and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban has caught the wave and is publishing a new book, How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do I, as an eBook through digital publisher Diversion Books. The content for comes from Cuban’s blog and he figures [...]
6 key points for digital book sellers
November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
To make it in digital book sales, authors and publishers need to be available on every platform possible to attempt to control the market share. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have recognized this on top of the hardware that they have produced… Distribution and the storefront is one area where these two points have really converged into [...]
Changing Landscape of Book Publishing [Economist]
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In some ways the transition from paper to digital distribution for book publishers and independent authors is a boon. It’s true that most e-books currently have high profit margins, and are free from many of the drawbacks of print. Peter Osnos, who is the founder of PublicAffairs Books, states that the biggest challenge small publishers face is [...]
The Book Business continues to Evolve
August 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The economics of the book business are changing so rapidly the publishing industry barely looks like it did just six months ago. Divining the profitability of a book is a mysterious art. But basic book economics suggest an e-book is more profitable than a hardcover, even at substantially lower consumer prices, due mostly to the inventory [...]
Apple and other Major Publishers Sued over Price Fixing
August 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Law firm Finkelstein Thompson LLP filed a class action complaint against Apple, Inc. and six major book publishers alleging a horizontal conspiracy to fix and increase the price of eBooks in the United States. These allegations, if proved, may entitle purchasers of eBooks to monetary damages. The publishers include Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers [...]
Columbia’s Publishing Course Impacted by E-books
July 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The success of e-books is affecting all aspects of the publishing industry, recently leading to a change in the material discussed at Columbia’s Publishing Course, a annual six-week summer session to educate college graduates on book editing, sales, cover design and publicity. This year, the course focused on “The Digital Future” of publishing and the [...]
