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NewsIn Mexico, Print Sales Slumped but Online Sales Soared in 2020
Audiobooks, e-books, and e-commerce all got a boost in Mexico last year.
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News
Dundurn Rebrands, Adding New Storefront and Imprint
Toronto's Dundurn Press has rebranded and updated its colophon to reflect a new vision for the company, as well as announcing plans to open a storefront later this year and the creation of a new imprint, Rare Machines.
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Trade Shows
Registration Opens for PW’s U.S. Book Show
PW's newly organized U.S. Book Show, slated to run May 25-27, 2021, is open for registration.
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News
Online Retailers Won as Market Grew in Italy in 2020
Online and digital booksellers gained market share last year in Italy and total book sales grew 2.4%, according to the Italian Publishers Association. Small booksellers also found ways to innovate, despite challenges.
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Trade Shows
Taipei Book Fair Forced to Go Virtual
A last-minute outbreak of Covid-19 cases at a local hospital effectively derailed the planned in-person segment of the 2021 Taipei International Book Fair, which ran from January 26 to 31 as a virtual event.
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News
Australia's Booktopia Has a December to Remember
Booktopia, the largest independent online bookseller in Australia, reported the strongest December in the company's 16-year history, shipping approximately 728,000 units during the month.
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News
U.K. and Irish Book Sales Surprised in 2020
According to Nielsen BookScan data, unit sales of print books hit 202 million in the year, 5.2% more than 2019. The total value of print books sold is estimated to be £1.76 billion, up 5.5% over 2019. Ireland saw similar growth.
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News
Prize Winners Score in Europe
As usually occurs, the winner of the Prix Goncourt, France’s top fiction prize, shot to #1 on the French fiction list after it was announced in late November.
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Deals
Lau Sees Wattpad and Naver as a Perfect Match
As international, multiplatform entertainment companies offering different publishing formats to readers and writers, "Naver and Wattpad are perfectly aligned," said Wattpad's CEO and cofounder Allen Lau following the announcement that the Korean internet company has agreed to buy Wattpad.
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Deals
South Korea's Naver to Acquire Wattpad for $600 Million
Naver, Korea's leading internet platform, is acquiring Canadian social writing and reading platform Wattpad for more than $600 million.
