February 24, 2016 | The Hot Sheet

How Big Is Big? A Quick Look at the Amazonian Workforce

It can be difficult for those of us in the publishing industry to get a handle on Amazon’s tremendous scale.

For our earlier report on Reedsy’s new Book Editor, we spoke with the startup’s twenty-five-year-old CEO, Emmanuel Nataf.

Last week, Scribd publicly announced that it was ending its all-you-can-read ebook subscription plan.

Recent developments around Canada’s Kobo have brought new definition to its challenges in the industry.

For years, serialization has been discussed as a significant area of opportunity for reading and publishing in the digital age.

Two models of vertical are operating now at Open Road, which publishes more than 10,000 books by more than 2,000 writers.

The Cooperative Children’s Book Center (UW-Madison’s School of Education) has tracked diversity in children’s books for twenty-five years.

The Hot Sheet Index reviewed the number of Kobo, and Amazon users against the number of ebooks sold on these sites.

In much of the world, digital reading hasn’t taken off with nearly the strength that the United States market has seen.