A new study of the book market in Spain shows consumers are reading more during the pandemic lockdown, buying more books online, and still prefer print over digital.
US Book Market: NPD Sees Unit Sales Up 2.8 Percent in Q2
Politically related biography and memoir gained, and children’s print gained 12 percent over the second quarter of 2019 in unit sales.
Coronavirus Impact: Nielsen Book India on Readers in the Pandemic
Nielsen Book’s extensive survey of India’s consumer behavior in and after lockdowns reveals shifts in the time spent reading–and listening–for publishers.
Introducing Publishing’s People to Readers: Colombia’s Campaign Against Book Piracy
To raise awareness of book production, Colombia’s publishers and the Bogotá book fair are educating consumers in hopes of curbing piracy.
Italian Book and Newspaper Publishers Reveal Scale of Piracy
Costing the books industry as much as €528 million, piracy is a major target for Italian book and news publishers in 2020.
IPA-FEP Global Report Promotes ‘Zero-Rate’ VAT on Books
In a new report, the International Publishers Association finds that higher VAT rates on books can have a negative impact on book sales, education and copyright.
Canada’s Shelfie Partners with Germany’s De Gruyter in Ebook Bundling
With more than 1,200 publishers on its list, Vancouver’s Shelfie adds Berlin’s De Gruyter, making ebook editions of its books available to individual owners of the print copies.
Researching Students’ Preference for Print: Cost and Smell.
Oxford University Press author Naomi S. Baron of American University talks about findings from her survey of students’ fondness for print books.
Russians Who Read Still Prefer Print Over Ebooks
A new survey showed that Russian readers preferred printed books over eBooks by 49% to 9%, though 37% surveyed said “that they do not read books at all.”
Nielsen’s BookInsights: UK Publishers Sold £2.2 Billion in 2014
UK publishers sold £2.2 billion of books in 2004, with ebooks accounting for nearly half UK fiction sales—though print in other categories proved resilient.