Less is more for publishers and retailers.
The article reports that the business model for children's books has changed dramatically since the past two to three years, and this will drive the industry's performance in 2005. Across the board, publishers are focusing more effort on fewer titles with a gradual but steady decline in output. Fewe...
| Publicado en: | Bookseller no. 5162; p. 27 |
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Bookseller Media Ltd
1/21/2005
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| Sumario: | The article reports that the business model for children's books has changed dramatically since the past two to three years, and this will drive the industry's performance in 2005. Across the board, publishers are focusing more effort on fewer titles with a gradual but steady decline in output. Fewer titles are making more money and that is the same across fiction and picture books. For example, HarperCollins Children's Books plans to reduce its output from 330 children's titles per year to 218 titles during 2006/07. INSET: The big challenges in 2005.. |
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