The number of school libraries building electronic stacks is increasing in the past few years. A 2011 survey by the School Library Journal found that 31 percent had e-books in their collections. But 63 percent of those surveyed said they couldn’t afford to buy digital books. On a recent afternoon, 9-year-old Josh Hezel and his [...]
6 key points for digital book sellers
November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
To make it in digital book sales, authors and publishers need to be available on every platform possible to attempt to control the market share. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have recognized this on top of the hardware that they have produced… Distribution and the storefront is one area where these two points have really converged into [...]
EPUB3 e-book Format soon to handle Japanese
October 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A new global standard for digital books, to be released as early as October, will be able to handle vertical Japanese text, a move expected to promote the standardization of e-book devices and digital books in the country. The standard to be adopted by Sony and Rakuten is a content publication standard called EPUB3, which [...]
The Dynamic Publishing Industry
September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
September 2011 What the publishing industry faces right now is a customer base that demands a digital product even as the technology that makes these products possible is still in its early stages of development. Random House has experienced a 200 percent growth in eBook sales this year, and every other company’s sales tell similar [...]
IKEA introduces bookless “book”shelves
September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
IKEA has noticed a shift in what consumers are storing on their bookshelves. After all, a Kindle can hold thousands more books than a wooden tower in the living room. According to the Economist, next month Ikea will release a new version of its classic Billy bookshelf, one that’s focused less on storing books than on [...]
Soundtracks for e-books?
August 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As ebook sales have skyrocketed in the past several years, publishers have searched for ways to improve on the digital editions of their books. In 2010 enhanced e-books with video and audio were all the rage, but sales for many enhanced e-books were dismal, and the books were often expensive to produce. In the movie [...]
Are eReaders taking over?
August 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On a recent Go bus trip from Hamilton to Toronto, more than half the approximately 50 passengers had their noses buried in something. Two of them were reading books. A handful of people were busy texting or using an app on their smartphones. One young kid, who looked to be about seven, played a video [...]
Study: E-book Sales Continue to Flourish
August 19, 2011 By 5 Comments
E-book Sales continue to be rock solid according to BookStats, a collaboration between the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). This first BookStats report covers the years 2008-10. Get the complete details here. “The BookStats study indicates that the publishing industry is healthy and growing during a time of [...]
E-books Gaining in Popularity with Book Clubs
August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A 2011 survey found the majority of book club members still prefer the printed book, 25.5 percent reported using an e-reader in 2010, compared to 15.6 percent in 2009. The Amazon Kindle leads the way among e-reading book club members, with 59 percent owning Kindles. The Nook ranked second at 29 percent. Almost 20 percent [...]
A Look at the Classroom of the Future
July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Surprise. Textbooks, notebooks, pencils and pens may soon be obsolete in most classrooms around the country. Some schools are downloading all of their texts for each student into E – books and in Fairfax County, VA school leaders are opting for online Social Studies textbooks starting next year. “More futuristically speaking my expectation is… [READ [...]
