Wed January 15 2014
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06:20 AM by Katsunami in E-Book General | News Original Article: Nederlandse e-bookverkoop stijgt met ruim 60 procent in 2013 Translation: In 2013, 60% more e-books were sold as compared to the year before. In total 1.95 million e-books were sold in 2013, compared to 1.2 million in 2012. Boekblad reported that at this moment, e-books are generating about 3.2% of all revenue. According to Mathijs Suidman, manager Digital Media of Centraal Boekhuis, which distributes almost all Dutch books, the figure is so low because e-books cost less on average. "If you'd look to the number of books sold, they'd make up about 4.6% of the A book market." Still, the growth is disappointing to him. "I expected that this amount would grow faster - partly because of my expectation that libraries would have started to loan e-books already, beginning last October," says Suidman. It looks like the market share of e-books is not rising very fast. Figures published earlier by NUTech showed that 4.1% of book revenue was generated by e-books in May 2013. More than one in five books that are ordered online is digital, says Suidman. The number of e-books on offer rose from 19.230 titles to 28.319. Centraal Boekhuis offers over 80.000 different physical books. |
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Sat January 11 2014
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06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Just in case you've missed anything, here is the list of our frontpage news this week. E-Book General - News E-Book Readers - Apple Devices |
Fri January 10 2014
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06:50 AM by John F in E-Book General | News
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Tue January 07 2014
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11:35 AM by jswinden in E-Book Readers | Apple Devices
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05:08 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News From the WSJ:
Zola itself is a modestly funded startup so the sale price was probably low, as expected of a half-baked, poorly defined effort.
It's going to need a lot of further work. |
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Sat January 04 2014
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06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Once again, our weekly roundup of highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead: E-Book General - News |
Fri January 03 2014
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07:39 AM by Bookpossum in E-Book General | News I was sorry to read of the death of Elizabeth Jane Howard. |
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Sun December 29 2013
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05:14 AM by Greg Anos in E-Book General | News Here's the latest copyright ruling on Sherlock Holmes and the US copyright. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101298769 Welcome to the looking glass world of American Copyright... |
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