Closing Image: October 21, 2015
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.
Industry Research
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.
Hot Sheet Index: October 7, 2015
The Hot Sheet Index reviewed the number of countries that Kobo, Apple iBooks, Nook and Amazon Kindle sells in.
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The Bookish Elites: Market size and new title production in relation to GDP per capita in the twenty-three largest publishing markets worldwide.
Forget Good Looks and Charm: Fans Like Their Authors Dependable
According to Nielsen’s research, fans have a better opinion of authors than they do of sports figures and musical artists.
Survey Blues: The Latest Handwringing Over Author Income
The headline results of the new Authors Guild “The Wages of Writing” author-income survey probably didn’t shock you.
Hot Sheet Index: September 23, 2015
A snapshot of current industry data.
Closing Image: September 23, 2015
Pew Research has released a new study on library use.
Closing Image: September 9, 2015
Demographics of leading social network platform users, according to Pew Research Center (August 2015).