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AvatarMöbius@mobius_europe·
1 Jul

💡Do you prefer to read on paper or on screen? This dilemma arises constantly, but here it is explainedwhat has happened to traditional reading after the pandemic. Discovering and reading go hand in hand, join us! 🔗👉

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30 Jun

Möbius Awards Ceremony🏆 The winners of the open call for manuscripts were announced!

👉Meet the winner of the first mobius book
👉Get to know the project and find out how you can be the next one.
👉Discover the winners

Enjoy the full event here 🔗https://youtu.be/elz4tisizM4

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⏰THE MÖBIUS OPEN CALL IS CLOSING TOMORROW! 'Th ⏰THE MÖBIUS OPEN CALL IS CLOSING TOMORROW! 'The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.' The Nobel Prize Dennis Gabor once said, which seemed to be visioning what the Möbius project aims to do: create the world of tomorrow with the values we dream today according to the New European Bauhaus.🚀 Are you thrilled to be part of it? Then, do not hesitate to participate in the Möbius Open Call! 🥇1,500€ will be awarded for the best story  🥈🥉500€ will be awarded for each of the 2nd and 3rd places.   🎫The prizes will be delivered in kind  Eligibility conditions:  💡Unpublished work  📄Max. length of 6.000 characters (including spaces)  🌍Participants must be of legal age (>18) and EU-citizens (plus Norway and Iceland)  💬Languages: English, Italian and Spanish   🗓Deadline: TOMORROW!  👉 Link in bio!
The Möbius Open Call is about to close! Don't pro The Möbius Open Call is about to close! Don't procrastinate the submission of your manuscript because there are huge things that can come up!  🥇1,500€ will be awarded for the best story  🥈🥉500€ will be awarded for each of the 2nd and 3rd places.   🎫The prizes will be delivered in kind Eligibility conditions:  💡Unpublished work  📄Max. length of 6.000 characters (including spaces)  🌍Participants must be of legal age (>18) and EU-citizens (plus Norway and Iceland)  💬Languages: English, Italian and Spanish  🗓Deadline: January 15th, 2022 Stay connected! Link in bio!
🟣APPLY TO THE MÖBIUS OPEN CALL! This is a 🟣APPLY TO THE MÖBIUS OPEN CALL! This is a call to all writers, whether professional or amateur🤩! We are looking for short original fantasy stories. The winning manuscript will become the 1st Möbius Book, a cross-media experience involving a 3D audio and virtual reality production and art installation! We want authors to imagine and build a beautiful and liveable future, the future we dream about. Participate now in the creation of the #MobiusBook!🔝  🥇1,500€ will be awarded for the best story  🥈🥉500€ will be awarded for each of the 2nd and 3rd places.   🎫The prizes will be delivered in kind Eligibility conditions:  💡Unpublished work  📄Max. length of 6.000 characters (including spaces)  🌍Participants must be of legal age (>18) and EU-citizens (plus Norway and Iceland)  💬Languages: English, Italian and Spanish  🗓Deadline: January 15th, 2022  Link in bio!
🟣 Does this slogan ring a bell? “A book for t 🟣 Does this slogan ring a bell? “A book for the price of a pack of cigarettes” It was from Allen Lane, who started the @penguinrandomhouse After spending a weekend with world-famous author Agatha Christie, Lane realized that there were no quality books available in train stations, only magazines and pulp fiction. To ensure the success of his business model, he had to sell at least 17,000 copies of each book he published, yet after just one year, three million copies of the first ten published books of the new house were sold! 📚 👉 Link in bio! 🖊Marjorie Grassler
🟣Did you know that the five genres that are mos 🟣Did you know that the five genres that are most likely to generate bestsellers according to Nielsen Book Data are general and literary fiction; children's fiction, crime, thriller and adventure; young adult fiction and romance and sagas? 👉 Link in bio! 🖊Marjorie Grassler
🟣 With the arrival of the internet and other te 🟣 With the arrival of the internet and other technologies, the publishing sector had to dig to its deeper roots to extract new formats to reach its audiences 📚. So many business models have emerged to tackle the digital disruption, adapting sometimes the old way of working to the online and interactive environment. The encyclopedia salesperson has not disappeared; they have only been uploaded to the cloud! 👉 Link in bio!  🖊Marjorie Grassler #mobiusbook #booklovers #bookstagram #techlover #cloud
🟪Book publishing is the largest cultural indust 🟪Book publishing is the largest cultural industry in Europe🤩 💡Did you know that the total market value is €36-38 billion? (@europeancommission) The majority of the world’s top publishing groups are European-owned: six to eight of the top 10 publishing groups, according to the annual Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry).” 🌍🚀 Source: Publishing Perspectives #mobiusbook #booklovers #inspiration #publishing #culture #europe #h2020
🟣 Did you know that e-books are 15-20% cheaper 🟣 Did you know that e-books are 15-20% cheaper to produce than physically books? 🤩 Ebooks are often cheaper in the long run than traditional books because there are no printing fees associated with them 🚀 Source: @breobox 📸 Photo by Perfecto Capucine on Unsplash
🟣Looking for fan fiction enthusiasts to join 🟣Looking for fan fiction enthusiasts to join an online discussion on new reading experiences next Thursday! ✨ Interested in joining? 👉Leave your details in the link you will find in the bio and we'll reach out to you
🟣🗣 Did you know that in Europe every year th 🟣🗣 Did you know that in Europe every year there are 500.000 titles published and there are 22 millions of titles available? Looking at longer term trends, up to 2007 there was steady growth both in terms of turnover and of title output. In 2008 title production kept growing whilst turnover, adjusting for exchange rates, experienced a flat year. 2009 showed a slight decrease in turnover (accounting for exchange rates) and a slowdown of title growth 📚. 💡 The crisis had less of an impact on publishing when compared to most other sectors. In 2010, growth resumed (especially exports), although favoured by exchange rates. 📖In 2011 and 2012, the market went down, and title production growth was sluggish; the e-book market grew rapidly, and exports were strong. In 2013 and 2014 the market slowed down again, with the most notable trends being the continuous growth of the e-book market and the good performance of exports, which became even stronger from 2015 to 2017. 📲The e-book market (now nearing 10% of the total) showed signs of stagnation for the last 5 years (but it could be a matter of capturing the right data), whereas audio book sales exploded in 2019, giving new impetus to digital sales. If 2018 marked a trend reversal in the recovery process started in 2015, 2019 confirmed the positive trend🚀. Source: @fedeuropeanpublishers
🟪 💡 “We may be drowning and not even know 🟪 💡 “We may be drowning and not even know it.” Philip Jones, the Bookseller. This sentence opens a discussion on the turbulence created in traditional value chains in the latest edition of The Business of Books 2019. It is an urgent call for action for an industry that is hardly acknowledging that book and reading markets have changed profoundly and have entered the “attention economy” in which books, authors, publishers and retailers find themselves competing against anything and everybody else that connects with the audience. Deeper shifts in many of these markets require us to dive beneath the Surface. From Argetina Brazil and Mexico, to the UK and to a slightly less extent, even traditionalist Germany, self-publishing has managed to establish itself as a new industry segment of significant scope -one that has achieved remarkable economic success. However, due to a lack of data, our undestanding of this segment is appallingly incomplete📚 Source: The Business of Books 2019 📸 Photo by Victoria Heath on Unsplash #mobiusbook #stories #booklovers #bookaholics #freshthoughts #hypertext #readers #bookstagram #bookaddict #inspiration
🟪The closure of the bookshops has been devastat 🟪The closure of the bookshops has been devastating for the publishing sector. The Spanish ones had 22’5% of losses during the pandemic, as explained by the sector (elperiodico). ⁠ ⁠ Product offerings consumer preferences and consumption patterns are becoming more liquid and segmented by various factors, they include different perspectives on books, reading and audio consumption 💡.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 957185