The Portuguese network of libraries has launched a new program for digital book access, provided by Québec City’s De Marque. The facade of the Livraria Lello & Irmão, in English referred to as the Lello Bookshop, in Porto. Image – Getty: Giorez By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Lisbon’s New Platform for Library E-Lending Lisbon’s […]
In US publishing, AAP StatShot figures show digital audio in October accounted for 15 percent of adult book sales. An October afternoon in New York’s Central Park. Image – Getty: Edichen Photo By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson October Year-to-Date US Revenues: Up 7.1 Percent The Association of American Publishers (AAP) released its October 2024
The Created by Humans platform opens for authors’ registration of their copyrighted works in a proprietary AI Rights framework. Trip Adler, formerly of Scribd, speaks at Frankfurter Buchmesse’s Publishing Perspectives Forum about the new AI-licensing platform he has co-founded with Jen Singerman and Edward Igushev, ‘Created by Humans.’ Image: Publishing Perspectives, Johannes Minkus By Porter
The States’ book industry revenues were up 7.3 percent at $13.3 billion, January through November in 2024, per AAP’s StatShot. A November 2024 day on Carson River in Lyons County, Nevada. Image – Getty: Christopher Thienel By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Digital Audio, Year-to-Date, Up 25.0 Percent In its November 2024 StatShot report released
Canada’s Valsoft says that ‘customers of Edelweiss and Klopotek will benefit’ from its acquisitions of both companies. Seasonal decor on Montreal’s Crescent Street. Image – Getty: CIIO By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Shared Values’ At mid-month, the publishing-software company Klopotek in Berlin is expressing its support for its owner, Montreal-based Valsoft, in its acquisition
Forming a dashboard for the French book industry, the Filéas project gets its go-ahead at a meeting in Paris. Key players gathered in Paris on December 20, 2024, to formalize the Filéas program. Image: SNE By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Finally Possible To See the Light of Day’ You may recall that in June
Digital audio, in 2023, was up 14.9 percent in the United States, at US$864 million, per the Association of American Publishers’ Statshot report. In Eleven Mile Canyon, Colorado, December 4, 2023. Image – Getty iStockphoto: SW Krullmaging By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson US Trade Revenues Down 0.3 Percent in 2023 In its release today
In a new BookNet Canada survey, consumers say that in 2023 their visits both to physical and digital booksellers increased. Reading in Vancouver. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Wirestock By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Purchases: 53 Percent Paperback, 25 Percent Hardcover As many of our readers will recall, BookNet Canada is a standards and research organization
In its look at Q1 2024, the American publishers’ StatShot tracking analysis sees children’s and YA books under pressure in March. In Washington, DC, where the Association of American Publishers has its offices, the cherry trees tend to blossom in the final week of March. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Pete Van Vleet By Porter Anderson,
Spotify’s Duncan Bruce says that 14 of the Top 50 ‘Audiobooks in Premium’ titles were released before 2020, as Bonnier Books UK signs up. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Michele Ursi By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Mann: ‘To Broaden the Reach of Our Books’ This morning (May 21), Spotify has announced that London’s Bonnier Books
