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Two pieces of news last week that foretell changes in the ebook marketplace

August 24, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

Two pieces of news this past week and how things play out with them might foretell some things about the direction of the ebook market. One news item is that reading on phones is really taking off.  More than half of ebook consumers use their phones at least some of the time and the number that […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Android, Apple, Apple iBooks, Atria, Baen, Carina, DRM, DRM-free, German ebook market, Google, Google Play, Harlequin, Holtzbrinck, iBooks, interstitial reading, iPhone, James Patterson, Joe Esposito, Judith Curr, Kobo, Molly Barton, Nook, O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media, Palm Pilot, Random House, S&S, Serial Box, Tim O'Reilly, Tom Doherty, Tor

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