The week that was | Publishing
John Whelan evaluates the most recent Nielsen’s BookScan figures – including the surprise best-seller by Mr Tayto who is in 10th place overall for non-fiction with a total of 10,793 sales!
Overall, however, the Irish retail book sector remains remarkably buoyant despite the recession, with the latest Nielsen data valuing the fiction market here at just over €37m for 2009 with sales of 3,882,427 to date for 46,929 titles. The non-fiction figures are running at 4,630,297 book sales worth just €65m for 199,377 titles.
This compares with the 2008 total market value of €111.3m (John Whelan, Irish Independent)
It was the week that Amazon hit the headines… repeatedly! First with the statement that the firm will not be opening any stores in the real world any time soon. And then came the real fun…
The Wall Street Journal reported that Simon and Schuster and Hachette would both be holding back digital editions of new books until after the initial release of Hardback editions. Penguin, Macmillan and HarperCollins joined the chorus…
Amazon have hit back by further forcing the cost of digital books down.
And news content has taken a stand against Amazon all of its own. (More on the iTunes-ization of fiction in the Guardian).
Somewhere in the mix of it all – Kirkus fell.
The Independent UK has a list of what’s to come in the world of books.
Booksellers reveal who the winners were this year – and what wasn’t quite right…
Galleycat’s ‘Can Twitter Sell Books?‘ continues – this time with reader responses. And in the mean time – Hachette have created a digital marketing role for Andrew Nolan.
And the mandatory iTablet/iPad rumour of the week: it will be on the shelves in March…
Faber have nabbed Tricia Rayburn for a new YA fantasy series | Random House Children’s Books has nabbed Arsenal midfielder Theo Walcott for a book series | And Lauren Kate’s Fallen has been optioned by Disney |
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