Nielsen BookScan reveals over 1bn ebook purchases in 2023, with Colleen Hoover and Prince Harry dominating high 5 bestseller lists throughout EU and outdoors.
LONDON, 12 March 2024: The most important Spring gathering of the worldwide publishing trade assembled at Olympia immediately, as The London Guide Honest kicked off its first day. Hundreds of exhibitors and guests from the UK and around the globe gathered to do enterprise, share experience, community, and attend classes masking subjects together with platforming marginalised voices, sustainability, ideas for writers, social media, and new international developments.
Gareth Rapley, Director of The London Guide Honest, mentioned: “What an incredible opening day of LBF! It’s been good seeing international publishing all underneath one roof and the thrill within the room has been so nice to see. the excitement has been unbelievable. From our Worldwide Creator of the Day, Taylor Jenkins Reid, to the Selfie Awards and unbelievable talks from authors together with Gavin Esler, Lemn Sissay, Equipment de Waal, and Joe Haddow, it’s been an unbelievable first day. We will’t wait to welcome everybody again throughout the following two days.”
Clockwise from High Left to Backside Proper: Gavin Esler, Lemn Sissay, Equipment de Waal and Joe Haddow on Creator HQ, A busy Olympia for The London Guide Honest 2024, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Worldwide Creator of the Day, Jonathan Karp of Simon and Schuster in dialog with Porter Anderson
Highlights from Day One of many Honest:
There was a Welcome Handle from BBC and Sky Arts journalist Geeta Pendse which was adopted by Esther Fung, Social Media and Advertising and marketing Coordinator at Pangobook, and Lea Crumpton, Content material Creator and Bookseller, discussing the rising affect of BookTok and Bookstagram, and the way these areas are revolutionising studying habits.
Jonathan Karp, President and Chief Govt Officer at Simon & Schuster, and Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief at Publishing Views, held the opening keynote tackle, which explores S&S’s outlook on the evolving world of content material and the modern instructions they envision for the longer term.
Jasmine Richards, Founding father of Storymix, Vicky Palmer, Artistic and Advertising and marketing Director, Hodder & Stoughton, Ken Wilson-Max, Writer at Kumusha Books and HarperCollins Kids’s Books, and Hannah McMillian, Director at Midas, delved into their professional recommendation on easy methods to put together for the publication of your subsequent ebook, with
Lisa Sharkey, Senior Vice President Govt Director of Artistic Growth at HarperCollins Publishers, Ain Chiara Bensenouci, Publishing Marketing consultant, Jojo Schlattner, Senior Social Media Supervisor and Ashley Baugh, Affiliate Director at Midas, shared how authors can use social media to spice up their model and promote their books.
Worldwide Creator of the Day, Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Occasions and Sunday Occasions Bestselling creator of Mailbu Rising and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, joined Leonel Teti, Editorial Director at Urano World on the Important Stage to debate her profession and inspiration behind the robust ladies featured in her well-liked quartet. Visitors at The Honest have been excited to listen to that Reid’s new challenge will contain “a very good love story.”
Jaclyn Swope, Senior Account Supervisor at Nielsen BookData, offered an insightful speak of the native and international elements driving different ebook markets in 2023, via the mixed information of Nielsen BookScan and GfK. The speak revealed that there have been over 1bn ebook purchases in 2023, the highest three international locations for ebook gross sales have been France (325m), UK (199m), and Italy (105m)t, and Colleen Hoover stays on all high 5 bestseller lists throughout EU and outdoors.
Throughout the How I Write panel, authors Gavin Esler, Lemn Sissay, Equipment de Waal, and Joe Haddow, shared a glimpse into their writing life, and supplied perception into how they wrote their best-known books and poetry, discover artistic inspiration within the on a regular basis, worth suggestions from the individuals round them, and the way essential it’s to uphold the human voice in all writing.
Alexander Buchler, Director at Literature Throughout Frontiers, Dr Richard Davies, Publishing Director at Parthian, Bianca Bellova, Creator, and Shelia O’Reilly, Board Member at European & Worldwide Booksellers Federation celebrated the European Union Prize for Literature and its evolution and influence on translation throughout European literacy scenes over the 12 months.
Sir Chris Bryant, Shadow Artistic Industries and Digital Minister visited The Honest, including: “It was a pleasure to go to The London Guide Honest and to see the UK’s publishing trade in motion. The sector is a large driver of financial development within the UK and we’re proudly the biggest exporter of books on the earth. We have to tackle publishers’ issues so the trade can thrive and proceed to contribute to the broader success of the UK’s Artistic Industries.”
The 2024 BookBrunch Selfie Awards winners have been additionally introduced with Julia Boggio, taking house Greatest Grownup Fiction for Shooters, Jill Michelle Smith and Jennifer Watson taking Greatest Kids’s Guide for Extraordinary Extinct Prehistoric Minibeasts: A First Information to Fossils, and J F Penn profitable Greatest Memoir/Autobiography for Pilgrimage: Classes Realized from Solo Strolling.
