Bookstat misses 18% of Hachette UK top ten ebook sales
The UK trade journal the Bookseller has once again shared the top ten ebook sales number as...
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Ebooks delivered the highest percentage of AAP publisher revenue in US adult fiction in 2018
It will have surprised few that, for the second year running, the StatShot Annual Report of the...
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Ebook sales doubled in US in 2018 according to Data Guy's nonsensical BookStat numbers
When Digital Book World announced Data Guy would be delivering the closing keynote speech, during...
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Data Guy rewrites the historical Author Earnings US ebook statistics. 2016 US unit ebook sales of 487 million now 525 million. What are we to believe?
I had occasion to revisit Data Guy’s January 2018 Author Earnings Report this week. And I...
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Audio Publishers Association says 2017 US audiobook market worth $2.5 billion – more than double Data Guy’s BookStat valuation. Who are we to believe?
When the Audio Publishers Association issued its latest valuation of the US audiobook market last...
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GDPR. The Facebook scandal. Amid mounting privacy concerns, Data Guy continues to sell author’s private sales data to Big Pub. But is it even accurate?
It’s now several months since the January 2018 Author Earnings Report arrived. You can still find...
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Amazon expands UK imprint ambitions as A-Pub holds half the US top ten today. A-Pub has more titles than Bloomsbury, Kensington or HMH if BookStat numbers are correct
At noon today (GMT) five of the top ten slots in the Kindle charts were taken by Lake Union (2),...
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The Hot Sheet Reviewed – first February 2018 edition
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter...
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Is Japan’s Rakuten the second biggest player in the western ebook and audiobook markets?
I’ve long been a lone voice on the indie circuit advocating authors take digital libraries...
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Macmillan closing romance website as well as Pronoun. Is Macmillan romance struggling?
Hard on the heels of the announcement that the self-publishing portal Pronoun was to close,...
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The BBC gets interactive with Alexa and audio
One of the most exciting aspects of the Global New Renaissance now unfolding is how digital...
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Insights from Data Guy prior to the imminent next Author Earnings Report
When the Bowker ISBN report first emerged earlier this month The Passive Voice blog ran with the...
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