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Bowker Embarks on Global E-book Survey

Bowker launches a new globl e-book survey to assess attitudes and purchasing habits of consumers in the UK, US, Germany, France, Spain, India, Australia, Brazil, South Korea and Japan.

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Scholastic Preps Social Reading Platform for Kids

Scholastic is working to launch an electronic platform for children comment and share information on books they are reading, said Deborah Forte.

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The Power Buyer: A New Breed of Voracious and Influential Reader

Once consumers migrate to Kindle, there are even more sales, with Kindle users buying three times as many books.

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#BEA11: New Data Shows Growth Across the Publishing Industry

By Hannah Johnson Today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) presented a new statistics report called BookStats, aimed  … 

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Nerd Alert: Tools of Change Confab Addresses a Publishing Industry in Flux

“Sometimes it’s okay to make headlines, and sometimes its important to stop reading them.” — Peter Hildick-Smith, President of Codex-Group, discussing book industry prognostication. By Publishing  … 

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“Breaking the Rules to Survive”: European Booksellers Consider the Future

By Edward Nawotka Earlier this week the European and International Booksellers Federations held their annual meeting in Brussels with the theme “Breaking the Rules to  … 

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