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Archives for December 2015
Strong Christmas Sales Week Lifts 2015 Print Sales A Little More
The holiday sales season for print books ended with a strong final week, through December 27, with sales as recorded by Nielsen Bookscan up 4.5 million units (or 20 percent) over the same sales week last year. Per the trend already written about widely, for all of 2015 print book sales grew by 17.6 million units in […]
Justice Department Replies to Apple’s Supreme Court Brief
On December 23, well ahead of the deadline, the Department of Justice filed its 33-page brief in opposition to Apple’s petition asking the Supreme Court the hear an appeal of their ebook antitrust case. The focus of the government’s rebuttal is to argue that finding Apple guilty on a per se basis, rather than applying the […]
Some Pre-Holiday Job Cuts In A Penguin Random House Group
Just before the holidays Penguin Random House quietly laid off an unspecified number of people in the umbrella group comprising PRH Audio, Fodor’s Travel, and Living Language. Division spokesperson Katie Punia confirmed in answer to our query that “a number of positions are being eliminated,” but said she was “not able to comment further” on the layoffs. One […]
Briefs: Amazon Holiday Stats, Printers Row Drops Print, and More
Amazon‘s annual holiday release featured a blizzard of whimsical non-statistics about all of the things they sold during the busiest shopping time of the year. Among the ebook-related bits, “the most popular Kindle book purchased on Christmas day was The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey.” The most gifted Kindle book during the holidays was the […]
People, Etc.
Former BEA director of education Mark Dressler died December 23 from cancer. Dressler also programmed sessions for the Frankfurt Book Fair, and was co-owner of a wine shop in his home of Traverse City, MI. USA Today named Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins as their “author of the year.” They write: “Before 2015, no […]