The monthly report from the Association of American Publishers sees the United States’ book industry up 23.4 percent year-to-date.
‘Immersive Media & Books’ Study: Audiobooks and Context
The Panorama Project’s study includes US consumer engagement with audiobooks in 2020, plus context around reading and other entertainment.
A New Report Evaluates the Indian Publishing Industry’s Prospects
The Association of Publishers in India, with EY-Parthenon, offer a look at the multilingual Indian publishing industry and its challenges.
Audiobooks: Denmark’s Saga Egmont Partners With Spain’s Roca Editorial
The digital arm of Lindhardt & Ringhof, Saga Egmont further expands its efforts to penetrate the Spanish-language audiobook market.
Rights Roundup: Becoming Conscious of Consciousness
Today’s Rights Roundup has material originating in French, Arabic, English, Finnish, and Italian, altogether selling into at least 30 markets.
Germany’s Bookwire in Distribution Deal with Spain’s Editorial Planeta
The new agreement with Bookwire will see the distribution of some 30,000 ebooks and 1,200 audiobooks from Planeta’s Spanish-language catalogue.
AAP’s StatShot: US Trade Revenues Climb 27.6 Percent Year-to-Date
The downturns of April 2020 lead to strong comparative showings by the US industry in April 2021 in the new StatShot report from AAP.
Bookwire’s New ‘Digital Consumer Book Barometer’: 2020 Data
The latest ‘Digital Consumer Book Barometer’ includes statistics from Italy, the German-language markets, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and French-language Canada.
French Publishers: ‘A Moderate Decline’ of 2.3 Percent
Even as Emmanuel Macron names reading the ‘great national cause’ of the year, France’s publishers are celebrating ‘book resilience’ in 2020.
Beat Technology Is Developing Romania’s First Audiobook Platform
Publishing houses in Romania are working together to produce the Echo audiobook subscription platform, a first in its market.