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Last year the book trade “rekindled its love affair with the
physical book”, Pan Macmillan’s m.d Anthony Forbes Watson has told The Bookseller.
“Previous years have all been about growing e-book sales, but in 2014, in a
market where e-book sales were plateauing, suddenly it was all about
forward to the past, not back to the future,“ he added.
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Luxembourg provided “state aid” to Amazon through its tax
arrangements for the company, the European Commission has said in a
preliminary finding.
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The highlights of the second morning of Digital Book World
conference in New York yesterday (15th January) came from HarperCollins
c.e.o. Brian Murray discussing his company and the future, and Nielsen’s
Jonathan Nowell talking about how print sales have changed in the US.
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Single-app products will struggle to survive in children’s
publishing in 2015 and the industry should shift its focus to online
communities and cross-platform content, digital experts in the trade have
warned.
Sara O’Connor, digital fiction director at Hot Key Books, said
many apps will “die quietly” this year, while Eric Huang, development
director at Made in Me, said making money out of an “expensive, bespoke”
app was very hard.
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Canongate
is publishing the diary of Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Guantanamo Diary, 20th
January, £20). The book will be published in 16 countries simultaneously,
including in the US, by Little, Brown.
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