The April 2024 StatShot report from the Association of American Publishers tracks especially strong performance in digital audio. Listening to audio at Pacific Beach, San Diego. Image – Getty iStockphoto Sandro Montefusco By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson US Digital Audio Sales Are Up 29 Percent Year-To-Date In its October 2021 StatShot report released this […]
The Audio Publishers Association, based in the United States, hosts a first ‘International Summit of Audio Publishers’ in September. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Sergio Caballero By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: Audio Publishers Association: 9-Percent Growth ‘A Unique Platform for Publishers and Distributors’ While many parts of the work of the United States-based
Asimov, Adler, and AI Rights: ‘Created by Humans’
Copyright Clearance Center’s AI re-use rights offer stands in its Annual Copyright Licenses subscription program for ‘millions of works.’ Image – Getty iStockphoto: Qi Yeung Studio By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Also today: AI Rights: Asimov, Adler, and ‘Created by Humans’ Armstrong: ‘It’s Possible To Be Pro-AI and Pro-Copyright’ Even as lawsuits and tense
 London’s Spiracle co-publishes independent houses’ audiobooks and sells them to bookstore consumers using in-store cards with QR codes. Spiracle audiobook cards seen in a store rack. Image: Spiracle Audiobooks By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson  Also today: Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024: Frankfurt Audio and The Arts+ The Search for Bookstore Audiobook Sales Established in 2022, Spiracle
This September, Lisbon’s Book 2.0 conference program looks at digital publishing, diversity, sustainability, and education. The inaugural edition of Lisbon’s Book 2.0 was seated at the Museu Nacional dos Coches, the National Riding School. This year’s iteration is at Museu do Oriente, the Museum of the East, September 5 and 6. Image: Book 2.0 By
With a recalculation of data back to 2019, the AAP releases its StatShot Annual Report for 2023, with a 0.8-percent decline from 2022. Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina, a shot made in 2019, the first of the five years of StatShot data now recalculated by Industry Insight for the Association of American Publishers.
The French publishers association, SNE, has had a favorable court ruling, blocking access to the piracy site Z-Library and 98 domains. On the Seine, cycling to work on March 22. Image – Getty, Olivier DiJann By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also:The Internet Archive Takes Another Blow in Court on Copyright ‘To Defend the
A 26.8-percent decrease in returns was a factor in the US book market’s trade net sales in June, according to the AAP’s new StatShot report. A June day on San Jose’s Santana Row in Silicon Valley. Image – Getty: JHVE Photo By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Adult Fiction a Driver, Increasing 8.2 Percent In
Fondazione LIA’s new APACE: 30 million Europeans await the EU Accessibility Act, but will publishers be there for them? Fondazione LIA’s APACE analysis reports that fewer than four in 10 European publishers are now producing accessible ebooks yet, with the European Accessibility Act scheduled to go into force in June. Image – Getty: Giulio Fornassar
