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Audiobook and ebook sales account for 17% of HarperCollins Revenue

In the last three months of 2021, which include the critically important…

Celebrating the Public Domain

Jan 1st is a day worth celebrating. Not only is it New…

IDW to lose GI Joe and Transformers license by year end

IDW Publishing has been one of the key players in the world…

MANGA Plus Data Used for Anime Adaptations

A recent blog by Shueisha editor Yūta Momiyama, who is also the…

Manga Piracy Crackdown Goes Global

Starting this April, thirteen countries are coming together with the goal of…

US Justice Department Investigating Penguin Random House and S&S Merger

Penguin Random house accounts for 1/4 of all books published in the…

HarperCollins ebook revenue increased by 16%

HarperCollins reported that their publishing revenues generated close to 2 billion dollars…

Hachette ebook sales declined in the first six months of 2021

In the first six months of 2021, Hachette saw a decline in…

Amazon Kindle Vella for Serialized Stories Launches in the US

Amazon has been working on the Vella platform since the Spring. They…

Google News Showcase will now include Canadian News Publishers

Google has just signed an agreement with eight Canadian news organizations for…

Nubico ebook platform has been sold to Nextory

Telefonica has just sold their Nubico ebook service to Nextory, a Swedish…

UK Government approves S&S and Penguin Random House Merger

The Competition and Markets Authority in the United Kingdom has approved the…

Amazon, DPLA Finally Join Forces on Library Lending

It’s been a long time in the making, but Amazon Publishing finally…

Audiobook Scams Highlight the Issues in Self-Publishing

From the earliest days of self-publishing, scammers have been looking to make…

Naver completes their acquisition of Wattpad

The South Korean company Naver, has just completed their acquisition of Toronto…

Harpercollins completes the acquisition of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harpercollins is the number two publisher in the United States, behind Penguin…

Major Publishers are selling a ton of ebooks in 2021

Harpercollins, Hachette, Simon and Schuster and Penguin Random House are four of…

Twitter acquires Scroll, planning a new subscription service soon

Twitter happens to be the new owners of Scroll, the company that…

Authors banding together to get Disney to pay royalty payments

A task force made up authors, spanning a wide array of genres…

Is Digital Publishing Overlooking their Biggest Consumer?

Everywhere you look on social media, it seems like it’s Gen Z…

Big Changes that May Save Barnes and Noble

Everyone is talking about Barnes and Noble CEO James Daunt’s keynote address…

University Press Library initiative will ensure a consistent revenue stream for the publishers

A consortium of sixteen university presses has joined hands with the Berlin-based…

Book Buying Habits Really Aren’t Changing… That Much

As the publishing industry changes and adapts to new circumstances, the book-selling…