Many have predicted the eventual demise of physical books, as e-book readers and e-book demand soars.
Publishers have largely resisted e-book library lending because they're concerned it might undermine their own e-book sales.
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The company has spent heavily on promoting its e-book reader, the Nook, and e-book sales in its stores.
Another interesting fact from the study: e-book borrowers are avid e-book buyers.
Close on the heels of the launch of its e-book store in Brazil, Amazon announced the launch of its Kindle e-book store in China last Thursday.
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She said the popularity of e-readers and tablet computers as Christmas presents had also helped to make January Surrey's busiest e-book month so far, with 2, 469 e-book loans.
Guests not keen on paying for an e-book they might have to abandon halfway through can choose from the 15, 000 free titles in Amazon's free e-book collection.
Formatting and layout of text in the e-book may be different, but the informational content of an e-book will not differ in any substantive respect from that of a tangible, printed copy of the same book.
According to the complaint, the five publishers and Apple were unhappy that competition among e-book sellers had reduced e-book prices and the retail profit margins of the book sellers to levels they thought were too low.
The Japanese company on Thursday also said it would launch its e-book reader in Japan by the end of this year and set up an e-book content distribution business with three local companies to solve previous problems with distribution.
Earlier this year, Pew research found that about one in five U.S. adults have read an e-book in the past year, and that e-book users tend to read over 30% more books per year than people who only read printed material.
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The Right Fight, by Saj-Nicole Joni and Damon Beyer, is available in book, e-book and audio formats.
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The Right Fight, by Saj-Nicole Joni and Damon Beyer (HarperCollins, 2010), is available in book, e-book and audio formats.
Well, if the Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller List is any indication, consumers say one thing and do another.
The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller List is powered by Iobyte Solutions, a firm that deals with such data.
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When the company reported on Wednesday that e-book and e-reader sales were up 30% over last year and that pre-orders for the new line of Nook e-readers were up 240% over past versions of the device, shares jumped.
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"After the hyper growth in the e-book market over the last few years, consumers have settled into their book formats of choice, and while e-books will continue to drive growth in the book category in the future, physical book sales will have a longer tail (or longer life expectancy) than previously anticipated, " he said in a call with investors.
Now that it has nailed the e-book business, E Ink is diversifying again.
For book publishing companies, e-readers present another way to sell their products and a way to get things to print faster, as an e-book can be distributed faster than a paper copy.
When the US Department of Justice sued Apple and five major book publishers over alleged e-book price rigging, it immediately became clear that a few of these companies would do just about anything to avoid trial.
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As I was clicking through the pictures of the volume, I got to thinking that I might be looking at the future of the book industry in the post e-book world.
Like many of the e-book readers that followed, it used e-ink - an innovation developed by a US company of the same name.
Over 80% of Fire owners have purchased an e-book, and 58% had purchased more than three e-books within 15-60 days of buying the Fire.
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Author EL James released a limited print run of her book, Fifty Shades of Grey, but success came from e-book and print sales combined.
Adding to potential worries, Apple and five book publishers were accused by the Justice Department of colluding to raise e-book prices.
Ever since the Department of Justice went after Apple, Amazon and the book publishers for price fixing, Amazon went back to setting e-book prices as it sees fit.
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She published her own book, The Beginner's Guide to TV Interviews, as an e-book through her website.
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As for e-book sales, Amazon did say earlier this summer that it sells 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books (Of course, e-books are much cheaper than hardcover).
Through their conspiracy, the companies imposed a new model under which the publishers seized e-book pricing authority from all of their retail bookstores and raised prices for e-books.
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