Free Nielsen key findings report: The UK Children’s & YA Book Consumer
Since 2012, Nielsen Book UK has undertaken a Children’s Deep-Dive Study each summer to investigate children’s book reading and buying habits in the context of…
Facts and stats
Book fair survey results are in
This month BookMachine and Frankfurt Book Fair ran a survey to find out more about your behaviour and opinions about book fairs. The winner received…
Bloomsbury sales up 11%
Bloomsbury today announces unaudited results for the year ended 29 February 2016. Financial highlights Revenue grew by 11% to £123.7 million (2015: £111.1 million) Profit…
Strong year for UK publishing industry as it grows to £4.4bn
New figures released on Friday by the Publishers Association shows that the UK publishing industry is in good health with total sales of book and journal…
All the facts and stats from the UK Children’s Summit
For the first time this year, Nielsen Book held a UK Children’s Summit at London Book Fair, covering the incredible growth we’ve seen in Children’s…
Colouring-in books: not the novel idea now
Returning from the Christmas holidays it seemed as if the whole of twitter and his dog had a shiny new adult colouring-in book except for…
Research shows only 49.3% of young people enjoy writing
New research by the National Literacy Trust shows that children and young people enjoy writing significantly less than reading. The report, Children’s and Young People’s…
Publishing 2020: an Advent Calendar of change
In the run up to Publishing: the next 5 years, BookMachine will be featuring a number of opinions about what might be next for the…
Reading For Pleasure Builds Empathy And Improves Well Being, New Research Finds
A recent report, carried out by The Reading Agency shows a positive correlation between reading for pleasure and increased empathy and improved relationships with others.…
All About Comics – A photo/twitter blog
On Tuesday night, Tim Pilcher treated a packed room at the Phoenix Artist Club to an entertaining talk on comic books. Currently working as Humanoids’…
Why you should never judge a comic book by its cover
Childish, too niche, corrupting our youth – the criticism against comic books has taken on many forms. But despite this, comic books are one of…
The Girl on the Train shatters sales records
Paula Hawkins’ novel The Girl on the Train has broken UK sales records this week, claiming its 20th consecutive week atop the hardback fiction bestseller…
Jam-packed report for internet-based business models
Dosdoce.com, a website renowned for analysing new technologies in the book world, have released a white paper outlining New business models for publishing houses, bookshops,…
Corporate Social Responsibility: Not just for hippies
This is a guest post from Jasmin Kirkbride. Jasmin is a regular blogger for BookMachine and Editorial Assistant at Periscope Books (part of Garnet Publishing).…
Is a royalty-only system the way forward for author payment?
Jasmin Kirkbride is BookMachine’s new blogger. Jasmin is the Editorial Intern at Tenebris Books. She is a freelance editor and published author. You can find…
