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#Publishing2025 Prediction 42/42:

Convergence of affiliate commerce & retail media creates new opportunities. Publishers with sophisticated commerce operations saw average order values increase 35% when combining editorial content & direct-shopping capabilities.

#Shopping #PubTip #WritingCommunity

#Publishing2025 Prediction 41/42:

According to a Deloitte’s 2024 Digital Media Trends report, users now regularly engage with content across an average of 3.5 media devices. Text needs to be supported across multiple media.

#Ebooks #Audiobooks #Internet #Books #WritingCommunity #PubTip

#Publishing2025 Prediction 40/42:

Publishers are increasingly viewing dynamic paywalls not just as revenue generators, but as strategic tools, for content differentiation and value proposition enhancement.

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#Publishing2025 Prediction 39/42:

As AI Companionship and AI Conversations become more prevalent, the use of AI-Led Book Discussions will be a big part of book-marketing campaigns.

#AI #LitChat #BookClubs #Books #bookmarketing #PubTip

#Publishing2025 Prediction 38/42:

ADHD is the unveiled secret of the year. ADHD consumers are notoriously hard to capture as readers. Help them read in organized bites, keep storylines linear, and make use of audiobook formats, to win this market sector.

#Bookmarketing #PubTip #WritingCommunity

#Publishing2025 Prediction 37/42:

Media tie-in and pop-culture tie-in titles will be easier to license for self-published books as fan fiction gets caught up in the rush to cash in on intellectual property. This is especially true for #TTRPG books

#FanFic #SelfPub #PubTip #WritingCommunity #Games

#Publishing2025 Prediction 36/42:

Printed #books with leather covers, pattern-gilded pages, and ribbon bookmarks are becoming luxury items sported by the wealthy elite. It will pay to provide some high-end editions.

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#Publishing2025 Prediction 35/42:

The push to help Gen Alpha be creative and productive without the Internet is very strong. Promote children’s #books in this space.

#KidLit #WritingCommunity #Bookselling #bookmarketing

#Publishing2025 Prediction 34/42:

AI Schedulers are becoming popular as time-management tools. Savvy authors and life coaches will convince consumers to include book-reading slots in their busy schedules, for self-development.

#Books #TimeManagement #Bookmarketing

#Publishing2025 Prediction 33/42:

Scrolling rings are the latest technogizmo, a Bluetooth ring that lets you scroll through pages, like a miniature mouse scroll-wheel. This is a page-turning device, primarily, which means it works best with #ebooks.

#WriteTip #Books #Tech #WritingCommunity

I am programming the rest of my Publishing Predictions for 2025, under hashtag #Publishing2025, one every hour.

You can also find the first 32 predictions from the last 3 days with the hashtag.

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I will finish up my list of predictions for the next year of the publishing industry tomorrow. To see the first 32 predictions and to follow along tomorrow, use the #Publishing2025 hashtag.

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#Publishing2025 Prediction 32/42:

A new trend among Gen Z is “bed rotting,” or spending the day in bed chilling for mental health. This should be promoted by the book industry with additional turning-off-screens and instead reading #books for mental health.

#bedrotting #mentalhealth #bookmarketing

#Publishing2025 Prediction 31/42:

#Books will feature more Modern Retro designs and Art Deco colors on their covers. The catchphrase art directors have been using is “muddied colors.”

#graphicdesign #Bookmarketing #Art #PubTip

#Publishing2025 #Prediction 30/42:

Scented #books.

You smelled it here first.

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#Publishing2025 Prediction 29/42:

Look for a book cover or bookmark that doubles as a phone case.

#Books #Design #Phone #bookmarketing

#Publishing2025 Prediction 28/42:

Autonomous vehicles will give riders more time for reading. The publishing industry should take hold of this narrative and push out #books before other handheld-recreation industries see the opportunity.

#bookmarketing #cars #Pubtip

#Publishing2025 Prediction 27/42:

The conservative-right/liberal-left divide will double down on promoting/fighting censorship in libraries and schools.

#Libraries #Education #Books #PubTip

#Publishing2025 Prediction 26/42:

Pop-up stores are coming back again. Look for pop-up bookstores run out of trailers, farmers markets, and mini-bookmobiles.

#Bookselling #BookMarketing #books

#Publishing2025 Prediction 25/42:

The reading experience will be re-imagined, in order to be pitched as a thoughtful, peaceful component of the de-cluttered , de-influenced lifestyle being presented on social media.

#YouTube #Books #Deinfluence #BookMarketing

#Publishing2025 Prediction 24/42:

To better control and disseminate their own content without control of corporate publishers or biased algorithms, authors will turn to decentralized social media. Such as #Bluesky.

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#Publishing2025 Prediction 23/42:

Consumers will be make more use of Digital Wallet Loyalty Apps, where brand’s loyalty premiums are tied into consumer’s digital wallet on their phone for seamless participation. This will be a boon for publishers who have repeat customers.

#PubTip #Bookmarketing

It's been a busy, post-holiday morning, but now I am ready to sit down and program out the next batch of #publishing2025 Predictions. I'll put one out every 30 minutes. Just search that hashtag to follow along.

#AskPublisher #PubTip #WritingCommunity #Books

Thank you for following #PUblishing2025 thread. I will post the rest of my predictions in the next 2 days. To view my list for this next year, just search the hashtag, #Publishing2025. Feel free to post comments, I love the discussion.

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#Publishing2025 Prediction 22/42:

The Social-Media-Marketing channels of book marketing will increasingly turn to community-based and book-club based social media and away from monetized algorithm-driven social media. Organic buzz will be more valuable than algorithms.

#SMM #BookMarketing #Books

#Publishing2025 Prediction 21/42:

As book-distribution chains erode and author-direct sales grow, look for affiliate-marketing word-of-mouth sites to sell more books.

#books #Bookmarketing #PubTip #SelfPub #WritingCommunity

#Publishing2025 Prediction 20/42:

This is a long-shot prediction, but there has been mention of a “plantable” eco-book that when planted, can grow into a tree, for an environmentally sound recycling.

#Eco #books #Environment #PubTip

#Publishing2025 Prediction 19/42:

Watch for a trend of printed #books that have unusual covers. Instead of rectangular shapes, book covers can now be readily manufactured in a variety of shapes and materials, embedded with technology or attachments.

#Tech #Ebooks #Publishing #PubTip #books

#Publishing2025 Prediction 18/42:

Writers will be the primary buyers of LCD-screen-equipped keyboards, to use as a portable writing device.

#Tech #WriteTip #WritingCommunity