News UK e-books: growth slows, Amazon gains DIGITAL
KINDLE DRIVES AMAZON PRINT SALES Tom Tivnan
New entrants to the UK e-book market buy more books, but tend to buy more from Amazon, even for print. T e number of UK digital book buyers crossed the eight million threshold for the first time; but the percentage growth for fi rst-time entrants to the e-book market is slowing. T ose were some of the highlights of
“Understanding the E-Book Consumer Today” the latest look at the UK e-book market conducted by Nielsen BookScan/ Kantar Worldpanel. The research—which combines
BookScan’s print data and Kantar’s panel of 15,000 UK consumers aged 13–79—showed that those who bought their fi rst e-book in January 2012 went
on to buy signifi cantly more books than in 2011—up 77%, from 6.2 million units to 11.2 million. Fifty-three percent (5.9 million) of
those 11.2 million units were digital books. Of those e-books purchased by Kantar new entrants in 2012, a stunning 95% were bought through Amazon. T is has aff ected physical bookshops
significantly. January 2012 new entrants bought 31.6% fewer books at bricks-and-mortar retailers in 2012 than 2011, with specialist booksellers hit hardest (down 40.5%), while supermarket purchases fell 24%. Significantly, however, the new
entrants did buy more physical books from Amazon year on year (up 9.2%) suggesting that as e-book adopters begin to buy digitally from Amazon,
print book purchases follow suit. The Nielsen/Kantar data
unsurprisingly shows that e-book market penetration is rising. T e survey said 8.3 million people in the UK had bought an e-book by the end of January 2013—up 5.4% (from 7.9 million) versus December 2012, and up 104.1% (from 4.1 million) against January 2012. T at 8.3 million represents 17% of the UK population aged between 13–79. However, the data also shows some
slowing down of fi rst-time entrants to the e-book market in the key post- Christmas period. In January 2011, there was a 48.4% growth of fi rst time e-book buyers over the previous four- week period. In January 2012, that growth slowed to 18%, but in January of this year this growth has slumped to 5.4%.
CANONGATE SALTS AWAY THE SECRET OF GOOD COOKING . . .
Canongate has signed what it calls a “revolutionary” cookbook from American writer Samin Nosrat. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: The Four Elements of Good Cooking shuns recipes in favour of guiding cooks to understand the science of their meals and follow their instincts. Jenny Lord, senior editor at Canongate, bought UK and Commonwealth rights in a four-way auction from Felicity Blunt at Curtis Brown on behalf of Kari Stuart at ICM. In the US, Nosrat met with 14 prospective publishers, with North American and translation rights ultimately acquired by Michael Szczerban at Simon & Schuster. The book will be published in both territories in spring 2015.
. . . WHILE FABER BUYS ANTI-COOKBOOK
Faber will publish an “anti-cookbook” from the team behind London’s hippest restaurant MEATliquor, with contributions from Man Booker winners, celebrities and musicians. T e MEATliquor Chronicles: Chapter
and Verse by Yianni Papoutsis and Scott Collins will be released by Faber in November as a £30 hardback and as a
£200 limited edition version. Faber signed a deal for world rights with Diana Beaumont at the Rupert Heath Literary Agency. Papoutsis and Collins set up
MEATwagon in 2009, a food truck that served gourmet burgers and other street food. From there, they expanded to MEATeasy, a pop-up restaurant
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above a derelict pub in New Cross, south London, before opening MEATliquor, MEATmission and MEATmarket at various London locations. T e book will also feature extensive
pictures and content from collaborators, including writing from Booker prize-winning author D B C Pierre and music playlists from celebrities including Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman Huey Morgan.
KIM SCOTT WALWYN SHORTLIST HONOURS FOUR
There is a “diverse and brilliant” shortlist for this year’s Kim Scott Walwyn Prize, the annual award which
celebrates women in the book trade. Laura Austin, co-founder of Book Machine and e-book and account manager at Yudu; The Literary Agency’s Juliet Mushens (pictured); Laura Palmer, co-founder and editorial director of Head of Zeus; and Miriam Robinson, head of marketing for Foyles, will vie for the prize which will be announced on 15th May.
HARVILL CHOOSES PORTUGUESE FOR YOUNG TRANSLATORS
Portuguese will be the language for this year’s Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize, with author Naomi Alderman among the judges. Entrants, who must be aged between 18 and 34, will be asked to translate “O sucesso”, a short story by Brazilian author Adriana Lisboa. The winner will receive £1,000 and a selection of Harvill Secker titles, and will participate in the British Centre for Literary Translation’s six-month-long mentorship scheme.
WILLIAM COLLINS INKS CORNWELL FOR WATERLOO HISTORY
HarperCollins imprint William Collins has signed a non-fi ction book from Sharpe author Bernard Cornwell (above),
covering the Battle of Waterloo. His account of the Napoleonic battle will be published in 2015, to coincide with its 200th anniversary. Williams Collins publishing director Myles Archibald acquired world rights in all languages to the titles from Toby Eady.
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