Collective online bookselling site Les Libraires went a long way toward helping Québec’s bookstores stay afloat in 2020. (Sponsored)
Spain’s Publishers: COVID-19 Boosted Readership to a Record High in 2020
In a new FGEE survey of Spanish readers, the number of people reading weekly increased from 50 percent in 2019 to 57 percent in 2020.
AAP StatShot: US Trade Book Sales Up 9.7 Percent for 2020
US books sales in 2020 were mixed, with AAP reporting trade book revenues up but declines in K-12 and higher education materials.
Audio Publishers Association Names the 2021 Audie Awards Finalists
The annual Audie Awards program for audiobooks, now in its 26th year, prepares for a digital awards ceremony on March 22, having started with some 1,500 submissions in the pandemic year.
Venice’s Mauri School 2021: ‘The State of the Book’
The trials of 2020 and outlook for 2021 drive discussions of discoverability, digital, and direct-to-consumer relations in Venice’s forum.
The UK’s Publishers Association Releases Its New Diversity Report
The fourth annual diversity survey of British publishing shows progress in women’s leadership, slower movement in BAME employment.
AIE: Italy’s Trade Book Publishing Sales Grow 2.4 Percent in 2020
Overall in 2020, the AIE and ALI with Nielsen have reported, Italians purchased 104.5 million book in 2020.
AAP StatShot: US Adult Book Sales Up 35.4 Percent in November
An unusual dip for downloaded audiobooks plays into the November 2020 StatShot book sales figures from the Association of American Publishers.
‘Crisis and Changes’ in China: Insights From Beijing OpenBook’s Conference
With physical retail down, 2020 was the first year in which Beijing OpenBook tracked a downturn in the Chinese book market since 2000.
Reflections on the 2020 American Market in Sales and Deals
In what NPD’s Kristen McLean calls ‘a remarkable year’ for US book sales, Publishers Lunch reports a decline in 2020 of translation rights deals.