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This graphic from AAP StatShot shows the sales performance of trade book formats from traditional publishers between 2011 and 2016.
This graphic from AAP StatShot shows the sales performance of trade book formats from traditional publishers between 2011 and 2016.
The Hot Sheet reviewed the membership of the American Bookseller’s Association and the publisher sales data from 2016 compared to 2015.
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While ebooks remain a small part of the market in continental Europe at this point, the general industry thinking is that this will change.
The Budapest-based self-publishing platform PublishDrive has been singled out by Google Developers Launchpad for its accelerator program.
Infrastructure and resources required to sell directly to readers may make direct-to-consumer ecommerce unsustainable model for publishers.
After the successful BookBub run, Open Road Integrated Media offered to advertise Steen’s books in their newsletters.
Ebook distributor Draft2Digital and audiobook producer Findaway Voices go live with new joint service to help authors produce audiobooks.