The Bookseller magazine says that each of the five biggest
general trade publishers in the UK — Penguin Random House,... [Read more...]
Following some brief introductory remarks from Redmayne about what he sees as the priorities in his new role (and both pleasing authors and managing digital marketing are high on the list), Michael Cader will interview him about the competitive challenges big
general trade publishers face in a world where they have one new massive competitor and one big customer that doesn't stop growing.
That would be quite an achievement given the struggle between the sectors witnessed in 2012: four of six of the world's biggest
general trade publishers withdrawing large swathes of their e-book catalogues from library distribution, a fifth publisher altered their terms for library usage — resulting in a high profile boycott — and the sixth tripled their prices.
The Bookseller magazine says that each of the five biggest
general trade publishers in the UK — Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — saw their ebook sales fall in 2015.
The Bookseller magazine says that each of the five
biggest general trade publishers in the UK — Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — saw their e-book sales fall in 2015.
Yorkshire Publishing is
a general trade publisher, while Yorkshire Kids is our children's book division.
The others [the major publishing houses] have a lot of capabilities, but they're in a race against time to develop additional distribution among them to match what PRH will be able to create or, alternatively, to change what they are from
a general trade publisher to a multi-niche publisher with * strong * community capabilities that can be leveraged for other business models.
The Bookseller also discovered a similar result, finding in its own report about the five biggest
general trade publishers in the UK — Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — that their ebook sales collectively fell 2.4 % in 2015.