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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Angus Phillips, co-author of Inside Book Publishing, was interviewed on the PM programme on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 20 July about the growth of ebooks and the future of the publishing industry. He was interviewed alongside John Sutherland, Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. The discussion was in [...]
Reading apace
Friday, July 16th, 2010A recent study by Jakob Nielsen compared the speed of reading on the iPad and the Kindle against reading a print book - it also included reading on a PC. Each user read a short story by Ernest Hemingway, and were then given a comprehension test to test their understanding. Most participants showed good understanding so little [...]
Kindle scout
Friday, June 11th, 2010We wrote before about how the growing use of ebooks will provide more information about how and what people read. Recently launched is a site on which you can see the passages which have been most highlighted by readers on Amazon’s ebook device, the Kindle.
To view the most popular passages, visit here. At present there is not [...]
Google eyed
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Sony, Amazon, Apple - now Google eyes up the ebook market. News comes that Google plans to enter the ebook market this summer with a new ebook site, Google Editions. The ebooks will not be tied to a particular reading device, allowing consumers greater flexibility, and the service will also allow a range of partners.
The new [...]
Book market in 2009
Friday, April 23rd, 2010The latest figures from the Publishers Association show that UK publishers sold 763m books in 2009, with an invoiced value of slightly over £3bn. In value terms this is similar to the previous year but unit sales were down 9 per cent. Sales of digital products reached £150m across all sectors, which is 5 per [...]
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