Malcolm Neil

Malcolm Neil currently works as Director of Content for Rakuten Kobo Inc and is a founding board member of the Small Press Network. He took part in the productivity commission enquiry 2009 as CEO of the ABA and participated in discussions around the forming of the Book Industry Collaborative Council. He sits on the board of Overland.

Articles by Malcolm Neil:

2 December 201513 January 2016 · Reading

The implications of parallel importations

Malcolm Neil

Statistics in the book industry are hard to come by: the last ABS numbers are from 2004 and Nielsen Bookscan doesn’t have the capacity to measure sales in every channel, but there are educated guesses that pass as fact. The book industry claims to be worth about $2billion a year, with around 45 per cent education and 55 per cent trade books. Depending on who you ask, included in this number are about $200 million of ebook sales and over $200million in overseas online purchases from Amazon and their ilk.

Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Reading

Bookshops, ebooks and the future of the novel

John Weldon, Jo Case and Malcolm Neil

Overland in conversation with industry insiders Jo Case, John Weldon and Malcolm Neil.