Books

Micro Trends

Reading Raves

Communal reading events are attracting young consumers for their unique blend of socialising and serenity.

Reading : Books : Gen Z Loneliness

Digital Public Library of America launches banned book club

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Digital Public Library of America launches banned book club

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has introduced The Banned Book Club, a new initiative designed to combat the rise in book bans in scho...

Media : Society : Book

Browsing The Future of Bookshops

Markets

Browsing The Future of Bookshops

While the book economy continues to grow, bookshops must re-invent themselves to remain relevant – but they’re not going anywhere.

Retail : Retail Experience : Online Retail

The Author Clock brings literature to daily moments

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The Author Clock brings literature to daily moments

The Author Clock uses quotes from novels to announce the time, transforming the timepiece into a discovery tool for contemporary and classic litera...

Design : Technology : Media & Entertainment

Markets

Reading Market

Innovators are harnessing pandemic behaviours to re-imagine books for a new generation of escapist, eco-conscious and phygital readers.

Media : Entertainment : Youth

Gen Z audiences are rewriting entertainment

Viewpoints

Gen Z audiences are rewriting entertainment

Aron Levitz, head of Wattpad Studios, explains how the storytelling app is creating an entertainment universe powered by data, fandom and teen crea...

Youth : Media : Entertainment

Stat: Lockdown boosts UK print book sales

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Stat: Lockdown boosts UK print book sales

British consumers are driving a rise in print book sales during the national lockdown.

Stat : Statistic : Society

The Campaign: Wild Detectives’ bookshop tourism

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The Campaign: Wild Detectives’ bookshop tourism

While travel operators faced uncertainty in planning campaigns, Wild Detectives positioned its Texas bookstore as a travel agency.

Retail : Travel : Hospitality

Penguin strips back reading with eco Naked books

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Penguin strips back reading with eco Naked books

To mark its 85th anniversary, Penguin is launching Naked Books as a way of continuing to offer a tactile reading experience in a more eco-conscious...

Media : Technology : Focus Filter

Stat: YouTubers are inspiring bookish children

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Stat: YouTubers are inspiring bookish children

A recent survey by The Reading Agency has found that UK children often look to social media influencers, including YouTubers, to find inspiration f...

Media : Entertainment : YouTube

Stat: UK adults read books to escape the pandemic

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Stat: UK adults read books to escape the pandemic

Consumers are changing their reading habits during lockdown, according to new research by Nielsen.

Society : Covid-19 : Coronavirus

Covid-19: Why this bookshop is now a travel agent

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Covid-19: Why this bookshop is now a travel agent

With its bookstore and café closed, Wild Detectives is positioning its range of books as immersive travel experiences.

Retail : Hospitality : Travel

Stat: Isolated consumers turn to books about the home

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Stat: Isolated consumers turn to books about the home

According to research by NPD BookScan, sales of books focusing on home-life subjects are rising in America as US citizens opt to stay in to protect...

Educational : Books : Consumers

EasyJet launches on-board lending library

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EasyJet launches on-board lending library

The airline has worked with publisher HarperCollins Children’s Books to offer child passengers books on board flights departing from the UK.

Youth : Travel : Entertainment

A tech-enabled book shop for families

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A tech-enabled book shop for families

Heritage publisher Rubio has been making educational books for Spanish schoolchildren for the last 60 years.

Retail : Children : Parenting

Thought-starter: Can books elevate luxury hospitality?

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Thought-starter: Can books elevate luxury hospitality?

Increasing the provision of the printed page is fast usurping the large in-room flat screen as smart hoteliers’ core entertainment offer.

Hospitality : Books : Literary

Literary Hospitality

Micro Trends

Literary Hospitality

Increasing the provision of the printed page is fast usurping the large in-room flat screen as smart hoteliers’ core entertainment offer.

Hospitality : Travel : Luxury

Serial Box delivers fiction as push notifications

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Serial Box delivers fiction as push notifications

New York – Publishing platform Serial Box is re-imagining the traditional novel format with a new campaign that sends stories of 150-characters or ...

Media : Books : Reading

News

Book chain

Australia – Editions at Play’s latest publication is a blockchain-based book that challenges conventional notions of ownership.

Blockchain : Book : Post-ownership

Digital dailies

Big Ideas

Digital dailies

Global – Radish provides original curated literary content that is aimed at digitally connected consumers.

Radish : Books : Futuretainment

Internet explorers

Big Ideas

Internet explorers

US – The Internet of Mysterious Things is a new children’s book that helps readers to unravel the science behind connected technology using an in...

The Internet Of Mysterious Things : IoT : Parenting Market

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Wonderland

Hangzhou, China – A new bookstore uses mirrors to create a whimsical space for shopping and reading.

Bookstores : XL-Muse : Interiors

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Sister act

California – Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a children’s book that trades princesses for female pioneers.

Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls : Timbuktu Labs : Timbuktu Magazine

Where art resides

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Where art resides

Zurich – Hauser & Wirth has transformed its second floor gallery into a chic living room replete with artworks.

Hauser & Wirth : Salon D'Hiver : Exhibition

The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home

Design Directions

The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home

Online publisher Lost My Name is back with its most ambitious personalised picture book to date.

Personalisation : Books : Picture Book

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