JOFFE BOOKS CELEBRATES BOOKSELLER COVER 2021!

We're delighted to have the front cover of the Bookseller magazine today. It features our wonderful authors and celebrates their amazing achievements. We're very proud to work with and publish our authors’ brilliant books!

As well as celebrating our authors, we would like to celebrate you too, our wonderful readers. It goes without saying you’re a key part of our team too. Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to sharing more books with you this year – there’s plenty more to come!

In the latest edition of the Bookseller, industry heads predict what 2021 will bring to the publishing industry. Our very own Jasper Joffe weighed in on the discussion and I’m thrilled to share his/our response below:

Jasper Joffe, Founder, Joffe Books
I asked the team at Joffe Books to weigh in on the question of what publishing 2021 will look like, as together we are much smarter. The consensus is that 2021 will be about solidifying three major changes that took seed during the pandemic. Conscious actions taken in 2020 will begin to translate into real, measurable progress for the industry and spearhead further campaigns and initiatives to create greater diversity than ever. There will be a paradigm shift in work-life balance (for good or bad), thanks to home working. We’ll see huge, simultaneous growth of digital publishing (being super-convenient and accessible, especially during quarantine) and local bookshops (meeting the desire for real-world community).

Across our sector, I’d like to see books by authors from a broader range of backgrounds. In our case, we hope to see results. We’ve shown everyone can work remotely but we miss the doughnut parties to celebrate our successes. The convenience of digital and its global growth will continue to mean agile indy publishers will be building readership. Our own sales are up 25% this year. But I think (I hope) from Easter on, there will be a return to the office and the high street.

If you haven’t read the latest edition, pick up your copy today! There are some incredibly interesting predictions from other industry heads like David Shelley, CEO of Hachette UK; Perminder Mann, CEO of Bonnier Books UK; Tom Weldon, CEO Penguin Random House UK; Stephen Page, Chief Executive at Faber and Catherine Bell, Group co Managing Director at Scholastic.