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BOK365 (no)
- Applauderer Erlings kloke valg
– Politiken som eier av Kagge er bra for leserne, det er bra for bokbransjen og det er forhåpentligvis også bra for forlaget og Erling. Det er bare å ønske lykke til!
https://bok365.no/artikkel/applauderer-erlings-kloke-valg/
VG (no)
- Erling Kagge selger livsverket: − Det har vært et stort press
Erling Kagge selger 70 prosent av aksjene sine i Kagge forlag til danske Politiken – akkurat 25 år etter at han startet forlaget som 33-åring i 1996.
https://www.vg.no/rampelys/bok/i/JxBb98/erling-kagge-selger-livsverket-det-har-vaert-et-stort-press
SVB (se)
- Amazon åbner butik i Storbritannien
I dag åbner Amazon for første gang en fysisk butik, der sælger bøger i Storbritannien. Sortimentet består af produkter, der har fået gode anmeldelser online.
https://www.svb.se/nyheter/amazon-oppnar-butik-i-storbritannien - Det er planen bag Politikens udvidelse i Norge
Med købet af Kagge får Politiken forlag, ejer af Svenska Polaris, sit tredje forlag i Norden.
https://www.svb.se/nyheter/det-ar-planen-bakom-politikens-norge-expansion - Nu lytter vi som før pandemien igen
De påståede restriktioner i samfundet påvirker forbruget af lydbøger. Endnu en gang kan der ses en pendlingseffekt om morgenen på samme tid som lytten i dagtimerne er faldet, viser statistik fra Bookbeat.
https://www.svb.se/nyheter/nu-lyssnar-vi-som-innan-pandemin-igen
Boktugg (se)
- Amazon på vej til milliardomsætning i Sverige – men hvor meget er bøger?
Svenske Amazons e-handel omsatte for mellem 450 og 500 millioner SEK i første halvår af 2021, ifølge beregninger fra webstedet Ehandel, der kiggede på virksomhedens momsrapport
https://www.boktugg.se/2021/10/04/amazon-pa-vag-mot-miljardomsattning-i-sverige-men-hur-mycket-ar-bocker/
BBC (uk)
- Booksellers hope soaring sales will continue as we read more
Not exactly a thousand years of solitude, to use the title of a well-known novel, but the long coronavirus lockdowns gave many of us a lot more time to read.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58802805
The Guardian (uk)
- HarperCollins removes story from David Walliams’ book The World’s Worst Children
After criticism of the ‘casual racism’ of a story about a Chinese boy, the publisher has taken it out of the next print run of the bestselling anthology
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/04/harpercollins-removes-story-from-david-walliams-book-the-worlds-worst-children
New York Times (us)
- Finalists Announced for This Year’s National Book Awards
Five books are now shortlisted for each of the five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. Winners will be named in November.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/books/national-book-awards-shortlist-finalists-2021.html
Shelf Awareness (us)
- James Patterson’s Holiday Bookstore Bonuses Return
This holiday season, James Patterson will once again be supporting independent booksellers through his Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program. The bestselling author has pledged a personal contribution of $250,000 to be distributed to 500 booksellers in $500 increments.
https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4084#m53987
Publishing Perspectives (int)
- In London, a Call for Publishers to ‘Name Translators on the Cover’
Authors including Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, Olga Tokarczuk, Max Porter, and Bernardine Evaristo lead the Society of Authors’ appeal to see translators come out of the shadows and be credited on book covers.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2021/09/international-translation-day-calling-for-translators-on-the-cover/ - Italian Publishing Shows More Growth in 2021: Up 29 Percent
The Italian market’s resilience shows first-nine-month statistics coming in strongly ahead of 2019’s numbers as well as those of 2020.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2021/10/italian-publishing-shows-more-growth-in-2021-up-29-percent-covid19/
