My O’Reilly TOC “Global Ebook Market” report – update 2013 is out! New chapters on ebook bestsellers across Europe – Central Europe – India. And latest figures and developments for Europe, UK, US, China, Brazil, Russia, and much more. It’s for FREE! (no kidding) Tweet

I spend a good part of the day giving interviews to German, Swiss and Austrian media, while trying to get a reading of the many dimensions of the at first rumored, and now confirmed merger of two leading trade publishing houeses, Random House and Penguin. These are the easy to comprehend aspects: When German Bertelsmann [...]

Allow me to proudly invite you to several events and reports about latest developments in international publishing which we prepared for the Frankfurt Book Fair – as examples of our work in the past year. This is the world of global publishing as we see it today:   This map was drawn based on the [...]

Der Buchhandelskonzern Weltbild soll verkauft werden – aus moralischen Gründen. Oder doch nicht? Kaum haben die katholischen Bischöfe die Kehrtwende beschlossen, steht die Welt der Leselust Kopf: Rechtzeitig zu Urlaubssaison und Strandleselust erscheinen ein, mit Verlaub, Softpornoroman mit dem Titel “Shades of Grey – Geheimes Verlangen”, plus zwei Folgebände, vorgemerkt für Spätsommer und Herbst, und [...]

After Digital, Globalization Plus Emerging Markets Is The Next Frontier For The Publishing Industry. The « Livres Hebdo Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry 2012 », co-published by Livres Hebdo (France), Buchreport (Germany), Publishers Weekly (USA), The Bookseller (UK) and PublishNews Brazil (Brazil) maps old champions and new contenders fighting over the global knowledge society. [...]