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The ‘Tools of Change for Publishing’ conference at Frankfurt this week, through its speakers, spent a large amount of time illustrating the results of the transformation that is happening right now in the books market. No less than three times during sessions throughout the day did the same slide appear containing a graph showing the volume of eBook sales in the UK.

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Google wants to shake up the digital book market

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The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference explores emerging trends around digital publishing, focusing on industry-wide strategic issues, "long-view" trends, and practical tales from the trenches.

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The buzz around Amazon's Kindle electronic reader has sparked growing interest in digital books, and the universe of players in this space is growing rapidly. New reading devices and content partnerships are announced on an almost weekly basis.

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At this point most everyone has heard of LibraryThing, the most popular social cataloging website online, and perhaps even of the Amazon-owned Shelfari, but here are a few websites for book lovers that you may not have heard about

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Is Google ready--or willing--to become a library? Librarians, academics, and privacy advocates will gather Friday on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley to discuss the implications of Google's proposed settlement with publishers that, i

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The traditional model for textbook publishing is broken. High college textbook prices are threatening to render college unaffordable to many students and their families.

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One of the big risk factors publishers think about when it comes to digital books is that they will cannibalize print sales. Factor in the lower prices we're seeing for ebooks, and it's a quite reasonable concern.

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The Merck Manuals, a series of healthcare books for medical professionals and consumers. a service to the community, the content of The Manuals is now available in enhanced online versions as part of The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library. The Online Me

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In this fourth part of our investigation into the ongoing changes in the book publishing business, we look at the author's point of view. What are they getting today? What would they like to get? What can they reasonably expect to get as this drama unfold

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A group of prominent faculty representatives from the University of California, one of Google’s earliest and closest allies in its plan to digitize books from major libraries, is the latest to raise concerns about important aspects of a high-profile class

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The American Chemical Society found that most subscribers to its academic journals no longer want the print version, and the group's VP of Web strategy says it's only a matter of time before print fades away completely.

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The digitisation of the publishing industry has “exposed existing skill gaps” some of which are “critical”, according to a report compiled by the sector skills council Skillset.

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This is the first part of the presentation given to the Swanwick Writers Summer School, 11th August,2009. It is based on The Three ‘Rs’: Authoring in the Digital Age.

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While digital textbooks were reviewed for their alignment with the content standards, California's Social Content Review criteria were not applied during this phase. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of these books are reminde

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Gov. Schwarzenegger Launches First-in-Nation Initiative to Develop Free Digital Textbooks for High School Students

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En pleno boom de las redes sociales como herramientas de marketing la IAB España ha lanzado esta especie de guía de La Comunicación en Medios Sociales con el objetivo, según ellos mismos en la introducción del documento, de explicar de manera sencilla las

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TechRepublic guest post: In case you haven’t heard, e-readers are making an impact. They’ve been around for some time, but only now (thanks, in part, to Amazon’s Kindle) are they being taken seriously. The e-readers’ biggest fan is the avid reader, but th

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A few weeks ago I wrote about how the small number of sales from many different countries were adding up to more than the large number of sales from the US in the App Store for our books. That trend has continued (and accelerated), and right now about 60%

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Last week we released 16 of our books as iPhone Apps (and on Saturday added The Twitter Book), and there's some interesting Long Tail data coming in. We've seen Long Tail behavior in the data from Safari Books Online and from Google Book Search, though i

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