The bookstore giant is losing market share to Amazon's online sales and to e-book readers such as Amazon's Kindle.
In fact, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - not released as an e-book - was typed out and released online illegally within 24 hours of release.
Paulo Coelho, the bestselling author whose novel The Alchemist has been dubbed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most translated book by a living author (into a total of 53 languages), recently wrote an article strongly advocating for online peer-to-peer book sharing.
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But, interestingly, slightly more library e-books borrowers told Pew that when they want to find an e-book, the first place they look is an online bookstore -- not the library.
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But Gary McGraw, a security researcher and author of the virtual-world focused book Exploiting Online Games, says that Second Life won't be significantly affected by the ban.
And it's not difficult to imagine the business-to-business uses of e-scheduling, like letting distributors arrange for manufacturers' deliveries at convenient times or allowing customers to book product-training classes online, or even enabling an administrative assistant to make plans for a temp to cover his weeklong vacation.
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An innovative ISBN scanner allows to scan ISBN codes so you can create your own wish-list and search on supported online libraries and book stores.
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The online book store will launch with about 10, 000 titles, with each book available for approximately 20-25% below regular retail price for the physical copy.
Amazon started as an online book seller before diversifying to be the multi-service provider it currently is.
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Plaxo was Parker's first attempt at creating a real company--an online service that aimed to keep your address book up to date.
Then again, Pew also noted that e-book users often start searching for books online -- which isn't great news for people who run brick-and-mortar bookstores.
Sony's move is also seen as a response to the widely perceived success of Amazon's Kindle e-book reader - although so far the online store has declined to reveal how many devices it has sold.
The recession squashed leisure travel at the same time as budget-conscious travellers began going online to research, plan and book trips.
It is to outwit the online businesses that the new-style megastores are trying to turn book-buying into a rather nicer experience.
Searching the phone book and online, I found only a toll-free number that connected to an answering system for the entire company.
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Of course, if a book isn't what you want to give as a gift, perhaps you should consult a book -- "The Best of Online Shopping, " by Lisa and Jonathan Price.
The books finally became available in digital form in 2012 via the online store Pottermore, with Rowling, who shrewdly held onto e-book rights rather than sign them over to her publishers, pocketing much of the sale price.
Nelson is meant to clue you in on a book's context by providing online commentary, fact-checking, and statistics about cultural impact, which is great when you're studying global warming for a class, perhaps, but seems a little over the top if you're curling up with the latest Left Behind novel.
The book was also advertised in in-flight magazines, online reading sites and stores.
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The old, general-interest book clubs are never going to be able to match big online retailers on range, or on discounted bestsellers.
For its part, Google's kicking in not just the operating system, but also an Internet browser designed for mobility (adapted from Apple's Webkit), a calendar, an address book, maps, e-mail and access to Google's online payments system, which can be used to buy things via phones.
Still, as Firefly is showing with its BigNote site built around a thriving community of music fans, good online music stores have the potential to outdo their physical competitors just as Amazon bests its book-trade rivals.
Online sports book Bovada put the odds of Patrick winning Nascar's most prestigious race at 15-1, while Patrick's teammate Tony Stewart is the bookmaker's choice at 6-1.
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In addition to more than 500 columns and articles published in a variety of newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, and major online media, Mr. Milloy is most recently the author of the Amazon.com best-selling book, "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them" (Regnery 2009).
Winfrey did an about-face after the online journal The Smoking Gun on January 8 revealed some glaring inconsistencies in Frey's book, including a supposed three-month stay in an Ohio jail that was really just an overnight bust.
One of the reasons I was so excited to write my book is that it gives readers step-by-step instructions to building a personal brand online, from figuring out how they fit in, to choosing the right tools and using them efficiently.
"While book sales usually peak in the run up to Christmas, the move by consumers to use traditional book retailers simply for window shopping before purchasing online at discount prices has seriously impacted this sector, which has already suffered considerably from the growing popularity of e-book readers, " she said.
In a fast-moving world where technological innovation has brought new developments in e-books and online access to contents of books, UNESCO Secretary General Irina Bokova has maintained that in celebrating World Book Day, it is important to remember that there can be no book development without consideration for copyright, especially when digitization further exposes books to risks of illicit use.
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