Closing Image: August 5, 2020
According to NPD BookScan, ebook unit sales increased by 31 percent in April 2020 compared to ebook unit sales for March 2020.
Day: August 5, 2020
Hot Sheet Index: August 5, 2020
The Hot Sheet Index reviewed the print bestsellers for 2020 so far. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins had the top spot.
Links of Interest: August 5, 2020
News The Association of American Publishers has released industry sales figures for 2019. All combined, traditional publishers’ revenues were up a bit more than 1 percent versus 2018. The ebook format saw declining revenue of nearly 5 percent in 2019, with an overall five-year decline of 30 percent. (That trend promises to be reversed in 2020. … Read more
Trailblazes: August 5, 2020
Trailblazes looks at opportunities, launches and startups like Arcadia rolling out a new children’s series: Spooky America.
The Internet Archive versus Book Publishers: A Battle over the Future of Copyright Law
Several US publishers filed a lawsuit against Internet Archive over its provocative move to establish an online National Emergency Library.
Amazon Advertising Offers New Metric for KDP Authors
Authors who pay for advertising on Amazon can now see the effect on pages read through Kindle Unlimited—a potential gamechanger.
How COVID-19 Has Transformed US Book Sales—and What’s Next
Trade book publishing is now seeing its best unit sales since 2010, but some categories are performing better than others.
Hot Shots: August 5, 2020
Hot Shots looks at publishing news recently in the headlines like US book sales continuing their upward trajectory; big-box stores are helping.