New Report on Parent, Teen, Child Book Consumption (GoodeReader)
Non-profit industry tracker BookNet Canada released the results of a fall online survey to investigate the digital attitudes and practices of a variety of readers.
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Retailing: Do Trade Books on College Campuses Have a Future? (Publishers Weekly)
One of the first signs that trade books in campus bookstores might be deeply troubled was when the NACS Foundation released a white paper called “Defining the College Store of 2015” at its 2010 annual Camex convention.
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Why the New York Times Needs to Think Less About Products and More About Relationships (GigaOM)
The New York Times is planning to roll out some micro-paywall products based around specific topic areas, but for some reason it refuses to consider the idea of a “membership” approach to readers — and that’s a mistake.
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Brooke Warner’s Advice on Self-Publishing: Don’t Try to Do it All Yourself (GalleyCat)
Brooke Warner, founder of Warner Coaching Inc., a service for writers, is speaking at our upcoming Self-Publishing Intensive, a three-week virtual intensive dedicated to publishing your own book.
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Kindle Daily Deals: Books by Camilla Lackberg (and others)
