The NEW book funnel: How discovery has changed for publishers
For a long time, the path to purchase a book was relatively simple. A reader discovered a title, visited a retailer or publisher website, and made a purchase. Today that simplicity has gone... Dis...
The metrics publishers should ACTUALLY be watching
When it comes to measuring website performance, pageviews have long been the default metric. They can tell you how many people visited your site, but they reveal very little about whether those vis...
Publishing’s next competitive advantage isn’t AI - it’s OWNING the customer relationship
AI is dominating conversations across the publishing industry. From content creation and metadata generation to marketing and workflow automation, it is opening up new possibilities and helping pub...
Don't let customers slip away... avoid abandoned carts!
How abandoned cart emails can recover lost book sales Every publisher loses sales to abandoned baskets, but most don't realise how many. Research from the Baymard Institute shows that around 70% o...
Beyond the AI Hype: What Publishers Need to Know
Featuring insights from Professor Greg Singh, University of Stirling. Artificial intelligence dominates conversations across every industry. From automated content creation to AI-powered discovery...
Algorithms increasingly shape how readers discover books online.
Discoverability Decoded: How Amazon, Google and Social Algorithms Influence Book Sales A great book still needs to be found. Publishers can invest heavily in editorial, design, publicity and market...
How to make the most of your eCommerce cart and boost your conversions
For publishers investing in direct-to-consumer (DC2) sales, getting visitors to your website is only half of the battle. The real challenge is turning browsers into buyers. Every additional step, ...
Why author bios matter more than ever
No longer just filler copy For a long time, author bios were treated as little more than a formality. A short paragraph added to the back of a book or copied onto a retailer page without much thoug...
Dynamic metadata: The future of book discoverability
Metadata is changing For a long time, metadata in publishing was treated as something quietly administrative. Necessary, important, but rarely exciting. A book would be assigned its title, ISBN, BI...
The world is facing a reading crisis. How can we solve it?
Children are choosing screens over books and it’s a growing concern as technology advances. At the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2026, the reading crisis was a key topic of conversation. The topic i...
Top tips to make your D2C website AI-ready
Start with clarity, not complexity AI tools are trying to interpret your content. If pages are vague, overly promotional, or inconsistent, they become difficult to use. The simplest improvement is ...
How Important is Having an Effective Website as a Publisher in 2026?
Reliance on third-party retailers is a risky strategy in 2026. Data shows that 30% of authors and publishers are already selling direct, with more joining this year to escape high platform fees. Se...
Key Features of the 2025 BISAC Code Update
The 2025 BISAC codes were officially released in early December 2025 and brought some significant changes.
Jólabókaflóð: Iceland’s Christmas Book Flood
Iceland is a book wormery, besides boasting a near 100% literacy rate, the nation leads the world in terms of writers, books published, and books read per person. Incredibly about 1 in 10 Icelander...
Let’s be honest, the weeks from Thanksgiving to the end of the holiday period sends most of us into a spin! We all rush around trying to get presents for loved ones, often unsure what to buy and th...
Main players of UK comics industry join forces to build UK into a ‘Global Comics Superpower’
The UK’s comic books giants have joined forces to boost industry and tackle Ai collectively. Historically rivals, they’re now allied. Here we explore the reasons behind this new allegiance. The UK ...
Books With Stories Darker Than Their Pages
Every book tells a story - but sometimes the story behind the book is even stranger, darker, or more mysterious than the tale itself. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818) Few novels have an origin ...
What Publishers Can Learn From Netflix’s Recommendation Engine
When Netflix recommends your next binge-worthy series, it’s not guessing - it’s harnessing vast amounts of metadata to personalise discovery. Publishers can take a page from this playbook. In an in...