From the macro to the micro, Bookwire’s second ‘All About Audio’ program made its key points with high-level observations from MIDiA Research.
Coronavirus Worklife: Midas PR’s Jason Bartholomew: After the ‘Blind Panic’
‘Midas had to quickly pivot our business model,’ says Jason Bartholomew in London, ‘to think of a new type of proposals that fit a rapidly changing economic landscape.’
At the Readmagine Conference Online: The Pandemic’s ‘Acceleration of Trends’
Rüdiger Wischenbart in his Readmagine presentation says the coronavirus may speed up pre-pandemic book trends, including the growth of backlist audiobooks.
Canada’s Kobo Rolls Into the US With Walmart: ‘A Very Competitive Experience’
Having once left the American ebook market largely to Seattle, Rakuten Kobo now is hitching a ride with Walmart back into Amazonian America, selling ebooks and audiobooks through the big-box leader.
Facing the Attention Economy: Publishers Forum in Berlin
‘A massively distributed fight for attention’ rages in the marketplace, delegates to Germany’s Publishers’ Forum are told. Is consumer service the strategy?
‘Habits of Culture’ and the Digital Dynamic: Spain’s José Manuel Anta
The impact of digital, the population’s loss of ‘cultural habits’ and challenges to the supply chain: José Manuel Anta tells us about Spain’s book market.
Revisiting the Long Tail Theory as Applied to Ebooks
The myth of the Long Tail for ebooks may be fading away as the digital book market grows, and it is operated by few mega e-retailers, argues Marcello Vena.