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The Consumer Intelligence Research Partners released an update on Amazon’s Prime program, with an estimated growth line for Prime membership.
The Consumer Intelligence Research Partners released an update on Amazon’s Prime program, with an estimated growth line for Prime membership.
The Hot Sheet Index reviews overall UK digital and ebook sales while also taking a look at US Amazon prime memberships.
Traditional Publishing After five months as COO, Demos Parneros is now CEO at Barnes & Noble. He has thirty years of experience in retail at Staples. Here’s Alexandra Alter’s report at the New York Times. Houghton Mifflin is laying off 8 to 10 percent of its employees. This spring, the publisher will complete a reorganization . . . … Read more
In fifth wave, the fear is publishers may not be able to fight powerful claims on time and attention made by digitally driven competitors.
Pronoun announced another round of new features. These include: Enhanced back matter, and Custom pricing for international markets.
Shatzkin discusses potential for authors to collaborate among themselves to improve their situation, without involving agents or publishers.
Consumer-survey efforts may well surpass the crippled sales-based dataset the industry is limping along with now.
It’s not entirely a surprise to hear skepticism around the UK’s Publishers Association report. As with all sales-data-based attempts at industry assessment, the data is inadequate to the task.