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The Digital Plateau: Why Ebook Sales Stalled
Ebook sales spiked in the 2020-21 lockdowns, then settled onto a plateau at roughly a fifth of the market — agency pricing, subscriptions and print's resilience explain the stall.
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The literary news file: prize longlists and results, newly found manuscripts, estate and copyright disputes, translation rights, announced reissues and bookshop openings or closures. Short, dated, sourced entries. For readers, booksellers and researchers keeping track of the year in books.
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Ears Wide Open: The Audiobook Decade in Numbers
Audiobooks posted years of consecutive double-digit growth while print and ebooks seesawed — a look at who grew the format, why listeners switched, and where the ceiling sits.
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The Sticker Economy: How Book Club Picks Move Book Sales
From Oprah's Book Club to Reese's Book Club and Read with Jenna, a single endorsement can reprint a title within days — here is how the book club effect works.
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The Money Before the Money: How Book Advances Actually Work
A book advance is not a bonus — it is a loan against future royalties, and everything from earn-outs to reserves against returns follows from that single fact.