Digital audio accounted for 99 percent of 2024’s US audiobook revenues, per newly released survey results. Image – Getty: Yuliia Kaveshnikova By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson General Fiction Holds the Largest Genre Usership Always helpful in observing the evolving strength of the audiobook market in the United States, the Audio Publishers Association (APA), led […]
Some 51 million units have sold in print romance titles in the United States market in 12 months, per Circana’s research. Image – Getty: Victoria Kotlyarchuk By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Romance Print Running 24 Percent Over First Half of 2024 As the Circana BookScan assessment on the first half of 2025’s print publishing
Storytel’s new CEO Bodil Ericsson Torp says both streaming and publishing are showing ‘strong momentum.’ Audio and biking in Amsterdam. The Netherlands is one of Storytel’s 10 core markets at this point. Image – Getty: J2R By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Bodil Ericsson Torp: ‘Solid Financial Results’ As many of the spring trade shows
The first quarter of 2025 has some softer numbers than the same period last year, partly because of a ‘late Easter’ on this year’s calendar. A passenger walks past a bookstore in Boston Logan International Airport on March 27. Image – Getty: Alexandre Fagundes By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Adult Fiction Leads US Print
Even as the publishing business in the Czech Republic has welcomed a zero-percent VAT, book sales continue dropping. The Charles Bridge on the Vitava, January 13. Image – Getty: Mirko Kuzmanovic By Jarosław Adamowksi | @JaroslawAdamows Book Sales Are Declining for a Third Year Members of the Czech Republic’s publishing industry say they still hope
Princeton University Press China in Beijing will handle sales and marketing for independent trade house WW Norton on the mainland. On Yandaixie Street in Beijing, an area of “hutongs” or alleyways and residences. Image – Getty: Tang90246 By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: Our Monthly China Bestsellers Update in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Children’s Literature,
The seminar of the Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri at Venice explores ‘Constants and Variables of the Publishing Profession.’ A winter morning’s fog on the dome of the Basilica Santa Maria della Salute on Venice’s Grand Canal. Image – Getty: Ekaterina Longinova By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson On the Site of the
The change to Italy’s ’18App’ ‘culture voucher’ reportedly cost Italy’s book business some €62.7 million, per AIE. Innocenza Cipolletta, second speaker from left and president of the Association of Italian Publishers, listens to a remembrance of the late Luciano Mauri after giving a report on the Italian market to the Scuola per Librai seated at
The German book market ‘remains extremely tense,’ according to officials in their initial 2024 Börsenverein report. In Freiburg im Breisgau’s city center. Image – Getty: Manuel Vinuesa By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘The Situation in Many Companies Remains Tense’ As Publishing Perspectives readers know, the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Germany’s publishers and booksellers association, annually
The newly released ‘Audiobooks and Public Libraries’ report shows US libraries’ community sizes playing a role in audio circulation. Image – Getty: Kerkez By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: AI-Voiced Audiobooks: Guidance for Consumer LabelingAAP’s October StatShot: Digital Audio Accounts for 15 Percent of Adult Book Sales A 9.2-Percent Year-over-Year Increase in Digital
