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No book market looks like an English-speaking market yet; might Germany be next?

August 1, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

Although ebooks are seen as the symbol of “disruption” in the trade book marketplace, they’re really just a part of it and they’re the trailing component, not the leading edge. Online sales of print books were making life more challenging for booksellers in the US even before the Kindle debuted in late 2007. And it […]

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