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Best-Seller Lists: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:20:46 +0000

Digital Book World has been compiling weekly e-book bestseller lists for some time, and in the latest analysis they’ve made on them, Jeremy Greenfield alleges to have found an e-book pricing “sweet spot.” What he means by this is that in looking at data over the last four months, very few books have made the best-seller [...]

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Random House’s Hydra changes contract terms

Susan Lulgjuraj — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:34:16 +0000

Many publishing insiders and authors have been discussing Random House over the past week. The company might wish it had stayed out of the news as criticisms came down over its digital imprints, especially Hydra, which handles science fiction. In case you missed the news, here’s the basic version: Contract specifications for Hydra were made [...]

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The Gamification of Books: Good Idea, or Bad?

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:00:52 +0000

There was an interesting article in yesterday’s Morning Links about the ‘gamification’ of books. I had first heard this term in response to the Reading Life feature on the Kobo platform, which awards you ‘badges’ for such activities as reading at a certain time in the day, reading a certain number of books, using a [...]

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Free Webinar: The ABCs of Kids & Ebooks

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:38:18 +0000

Our friends over at Digital Book World are partnering with PlayScience, a New York-based children’s entertainment and education research company, to produce a free hour-long webinar, The ABCs of Kids & Ebooks. The webinar, which will look at the e-reading habits of children aged two to 13, is scheduled to take place from noon to 1 [...]

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The Flat Future of Electronic Reading

Aggregated Content — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:21:30 +0000

By Andy Richardson, CEO of Influential Software The future wasn’t meant to look like this. According to e-book evangelists, freeing the book from its paper format was going to herald a new era of reading. Physical book sales would wither and e-book sales soar as a new generation of reader, converted by the convenience [...]

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Reading With Kids: Some stats to ponder …

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:15:26 +0000

Digital Book World’s Jeremy Greenfield reported yesterday about a new digital reading survey from The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, which looks at how parents and kids read together on digital devices. The survey of almost 500 iPad owners found that 27 percent of them did not read on their iPads at all with their children, and [...]

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Reading E-Books on Smartphones – How popular is it?

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:42:16 +0000

Last week, Digital Book World editorial director Jeremy Greenfield shared the details of an interesting (if non-scientific) e-reading study; it was conducted via DBW’s Twitter account, which has more than 20,000 followers. The tweet itself was simple enough; it read this like: Do you read on your smartphone? Do you read on other devices, too? Tell us! As of September [...]

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