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Does Pew study prove ebooks in libraries are safe for publishers?

June 22, 2012 by Jess 44 Comments

I haven’t seen this written elsewhere, but the latest Pew ebook study seems to me to confirm that the publishers are doing the right thing for sales by constricting the availability of many of the most attractive books from library shelves. That conjecture on my part comes from a data point that some may interpret […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, libraries, Supply-Chain Tagged With: American Library Association, Jeremy Greenfield, Molly Raphael, Pew Research

A feast of data to interpret in new Pew survey of book readers about ebooks

April 5, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

There are a few gems to interpret in the just-released Pew survey of ebook reading. 1. We are getting very close to half (they report 43%) of Americans 16 and older saying they have read a book or other long-form content in digital format in the past year. As other data in the survey suggest, […]

Filed Under: eBooks Tagged With: Kindle, Nook, Pew Research

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