‘New Year, New Me’: The Consumers Driving the Self-help Book Boom
One of the strongest performing areas of the UK book market in recent years has been personal development. The sector has expanded at a rapid rate, wi…
The bookselling power of TikTok
The impact of TikTok has been a major development in the book industry over the past couple of years and a frequent feature in recent…
The Best BookBub Ads of 2019
In 2019, thousands of authors and book marketers used BookBub Ads to promote books to BookBub’s millions of readers. To kick off BookMachine’s Marketing month, we…
Consumer 3.0 – Reading, crowd-sourcing and audience engagement in a digital age [EVENT REPORT]
Suzanne Kavanagh is a strategic market specialist and programme curator working with BookMachine Works and the BookMachine community. She presented on this research at the…
It’s about seeing the future: The 3rd Future of Media and Publishing Meetup, Bibblio
Francesca Zunino Harper is a linguist, translator, and publishing professional. She worked in the British and international academia researching on comparative literatures, translation, and women’s and environmental…
Inside the Mind of a Book Pirate: Nielsen Study Shows Who Pirates Books
Devon Weston has been with Digimarc Guardian since June 2012, managing customer relations and operations for the company’s enterprise SaaS solutions within the online content-protection…
2017 in review: from Nielsen BookScan
Jaclyn Swope is a Publisher Account Manager on the Book Research team at Nielsen BookScan, where she assists a variety of publishers with understanding and utilising…
Don’t Delegate the Future: FutureBook event report
Friday’s FutureBook Conference, organised by The Bookseller, presented three conferences in one: alongside the main FutureBook programme, there were parallel streams on The Audiobook Revolution…
ONIX for publishers: What are the benefits?
Publishers recognise that they are facing a huge discoverability problem. While good quality metadata will never replace hand selling it can be a key to…
A year in review: Interview with Lara Borlenghi
Lara Borlenghi has been Finance Director at Pan Macmillan for five years. Prior to this, Lara worked for 15 years in a variety of finance roles…
2017’s regional bestsellers – from Nielsen BookScan
We often report on the overall UK bestsellers through BookScan, which in 2017 so far are showing a good mix of fiction, non-fiction and children’s,…
Audio publishing: Common misconceptions
Louise Newton is an Audio Assistant at Little, Brown Book Group, and works across all imprints at Little, Brown on fiction and non-fiction titles. Louise is…
Book Publishing has a reputation for being notoriously underpaid, but how do we even know what people are being paid?
Back in 1995, Suzanne Collier ran her first Salary Survey, causing uproar within the industry. No one ever talked about pay and publishers were highly…
Why we should be publishing more children’s books in translation
Lisa Davis is the Book Purchasing Manager at BookTrust, the UK’s largest reading charity that gifts books to over two million children, and works on the…
5 reasons for the return of the novella
Jon Watt of indie publisher Type & Tell hails the return of the novella and the part authors have played in it.
