According to findings from Nielsen Book Research, Steve Bohme, UK research director, said that e-book share was up from one in five to one in three between 2012-2014, but down marginally to 29% in the first quarter of 2015.…continued
The Conference has inspired a range of responses and comments in the press. We are also pleased this year to include some blog write-ups from #TLC14 attendees. Browse the links below to get a sense of the event, and for further write-ups about what happened within the sessions, see the Event Write-ups tab above.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is the bait in a “trap” of global laws that give platform companies – Amazon, Apple, Google, Kobo, Barnes & Noble – “the power to usurp the relationship between publishers and their customers…continued
The subject of artistic taste has always been fraught, bound up as it is with notions of intellectual elitism, class politics, social identity and consumer power. Taste is both a tool for organizing society and a matter of individual freedom…continued
Self-publishing is taking off in the UK. In fact, the self-publishing market grew by 79 percent in 2013 in the UK, according to new research presented by Steve Bohme, research director at Nielsen Book, at the Literary Consultancy conference this morning in London.…continued
Maria Savva presents an overview of the Literary Conference 2014, making a note of her key observations about independent publishing, effective self-marketing and the importance of tapping into foreign markets…continued
The digital publishing boom of the last few years has changed the book business for ever, or has it? As a three-day conference began to debate ‘literary values in a digital age’, we reported the views of editors, activists, writers, doubters and digital pioneers…continued
Laxmi Hariharan report on how the boundaries between indie and mainstream publishing seemed to be blurring.…continued
Writing can be a lonely business, and the fragmentation of the publishing industry can leave aspiring authors feeling unsure as to whether they’re got more or less opportunity of getting their work read than ever before.…continued
Blogging has been around a good decade now, and the online writing revolution has touched every sort of genre and created well-known writers of many stripes. We’ve had the rise of fan-fiction (E.L. James), paranormal fiction (Amanda Hocking), women’s fiction (Anna Bell) and erotica (James, and H.M. Ward)…continued
At the Pen Factor pitching event, one author read from a work which seemed to place itself as a humour story. One of the agents on the panel commented that novels which identify heavily as comedy versions of existing genres tend to be a hard sell…continued
The Pen Factor, which takes its name from The X Factor, features a group of brave writers who are given a limited time to pitch and read extracts from their books to a panel of agents, who are themselves given a limited time to respond, and all this in front of an audience.…continued
This weekend just gone was the annual TLC Conference, at which I was one of the delegates. The conference’s subtitle: Writing in a Digital Age was something I was very keen to get to grips with over the three-day event.…continued
Pojawiły się nowe dane na temat rynku książki w Wielkiej Brytanii. Brytyjczycy kupili w 2013 r. w sumie 323 mln książek za łączną kwotę 2 mld 185 mln funtów. Jednak według Nielsen Book sprzedaż książek drukowanych w 2013 r. spadła o 10%, a sprzedaż książek w ogóle – o 4%.…continued