Hot Sheet Index: December 2, 2015
The Hot Sheet Index broke down the New York Times bestseller list totals by big Five publishers. Random House led the way with 28.9 percent.
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Graph showing that Amazon’s stock price has been steadily climbing in 2015
Hot Sheet Index: November 18, 2015
The Hot Sheet reviewed the change in publishers’ book sales from 2014 to 2015 for ebooks, digital audio and trade books.
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The above slide was included in a presentation by Jonathan Stolper from Nielsen, at Frankfurt’s conference “The Markets.
Hot Sheet Index: November 4, 2015
A snapshot of current industry data.
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Pew Research Center survey conducted March 17 through April 12, 2015. Smartphones, tablets grew in recent years. Other devices declined or stayed flat.
Hot Sheet Index: October 21, 2015
The Hot Sheet index reviewed the statistics for Amazon Publishing which was launched in 2009 and has 14 imprints.
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This statistic shows the number of visitors at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany from 2007 to 2014. In 2012 nearly 282,000 visitors came.
The New York Times Celebrates the Decline of Ebooks in a Very Misleading Article
No doubt you’ve already seen the headline “E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far from Dead” and encountered speculation as to whether the Times got the story right.
A Small Report on Small Presses and Ebooks: Help Make It Larger
Do you work with a small press? London-based Australian editor and ebook producer Simon Collinson could use your help with his survey.