Egypt’s “High-Tech” Cairo Int. Book Fair clocked 91,000 visitors and 44.5 million online hits on first day
This year the Cairo event finally embraced digital fully, with a hybrid in-person and online fair,...
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Author: Mark Williams
Germany’s Leipzig Book Fair will be in-person just 2 weeks after the expected peak in covid-19 cases
With Germany just having passed 10 million cases, and averaging over 200,000 new cases per day, it...
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Amazon is closing Westland, the Indian publishing company it acquired in 2016. What will happen to its catalogue and authors?
Amazon’s latest triumph of hope over experience comes to an end with the slow realisation that the...
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“Nextory ex Youboox” – Nextory rebrands its French acquisition, but what does this mean for the global audiobook industry?
One significant difference between Nextory France and the other Nextory and Storytel markets is...
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Amazon’s unlimited ebook subscription service paid out $450 million to self-published authors in 2021 as AAP reports US ebook market worth $1.1 billion. Just how big is the real ebook market no-one wants to talk about? (redux)
We need to seriously entertain the possibility that the so-called fall in ebook sales that...
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