(10 Mar 2025) As publishers, authors and book lovers gather in London this week for The London Book Fair (11-13 March) new research from the Publishers Association shows that UK books, journals and education resources are at the heart of the UK’s soft power, playing a key role in attracting tourism, students and contributing to the…
(11 Feb 2025) Many people no longer subscribe or pick up a magazine from a bookstore. Instead, digital magazines are increasingly becoming very popular, since they are optimized for smartphones and tablets. The problem is that there are so many digital magazine newsstands out there, and it is hard to know which is best for…
(4 Dec 2024) The Internet Archive lost its case against some of the largest publishers in the world after it decided not to elevate the September judgment to the Supreme Court. This ends the saga of the e-book case that started during the pandemic, and we can finally put everything behind us. The primary focus…
(19 Nov 2024) Catalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether AI can help catalogers by automating the generation of metadata. AI could provide an opportunity to speed up description workflows. Yet there are numerous machine…
(24 Oct 2024) Digital book sales in the United States have been strong since the summer. In August 2024, e-book revenues were up 6.1%, generating 90.4 million dollars. Year-to-date e-book revenues were up 3.5% compared to the first eight months of 2023, for $687.4 million. It is good to know that people are reading digitally again,…
(20 Sep 2024) The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library, developed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), offers free access to 5600 issues of magazines and 6000 books specialized in artistic literature and published between the late 15th and early 20th centuries. More than 1,700,000 pages have been digitized, the cataloging…
(17 Jul 2024) In a landmark collaboration, the libraries and university presses of City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are launching Open Books Hong Kong, a pioneering open access initiative, to foster global knowledge sharing and biblio-diversity. This is the first open…
(7 June 2024) Book publishing trends keep evolving as the technology shapes the industry and self-publishing shifts, presenting both opportunities and challenges for authors, publishers, and even readers. Here are the top 5 book publishing trends shaping the future of the industry: 1. The Rise of Audiobooks 2. The growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
(30 May 2024) Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it seems to create more problems than it was expected to solve. Find out more here.
(10 Jul 2023) Abstract of the paper: “University presses, as one of the major content providers in the scholarly e-book market, especially in humanities and social sciences (HSS), play a critical role in the production and distribution of new knowledge and culture. We investigate the relations among university presses, academic libraries, and e-book vendors,…