The post below was written for the June 2011 issue of the Australian Booksellers Association magazine News on Bookselling. It was written shortly after the rejection by Judge Chin of… Read more >
May 31, 2011 business, copyright, Google, Google eBooks, Google Editions 2 Read more >
Many companies treat their website and Facebook page as if they were completely separate, like having two independent websites. In a sense they are but there are plenty of ways… Read more >
May 25, 2011 bookselling, business, social media, tutorial 0 Read more >
The Association of American Publishers released its US book sales figures for February 2011 and it looks like 2011 will be the year the trade book business has to finally… Read more >
April 19, 2011 analysis, bookselling, business, news 10 Read more >
The following article was published in the October 2010 issue of News on Bookselling, the official journal of the Australian Bookselling Association. By Martin Taylor When we look at the… Read more >
The latest US book industry sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show ebooks are now tracking at 9% of domestic trade book revenue for the 8-month period January… Read more >
I’ve reproduced the article I wrote for the Australian Booksellers Association magazine on the subject of what you have to do to set up an ebook store. This is truly… Read more >
The following article was published in the latest Australian Booksellers Association magazine. I wrote it a couple of months ago and some of the UK moves have been affected by… Read more >
July 6, 2010 analysis, bookselling, business, copyright, ebook lending, libraries 5 Read more >
Top six US publisher Simon and Schuster, a division of CBS, broke out its digital numbers from its first quarter results to show an impressive year-on-year growth of 233% to… Read more >
Just a day after opening its Kindle store to non-US publishers, Amazon has responded to emerging competitive pressures and cut its slice of Kindle sales income from 70% to 30%,… Read more >
If you’ve been “lucky” enough to hear one of my presentations recently, you’ll quite likely have heard me plugging Smashwords.com as a great way to dip a toe in the… Read more >