Some of these efforts have been less about making interesting apps, and more about ways to drive sales back to books, still the bread and butter for publishers.
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Of course, a lot of this disappointment has a single cause: the poor performance of the economy, and the OBR's judgment that a lot of the economic ground we had lost since 2007 we were not going to get back - meaning the books were in a worse state in 2010 than the coalition realised at the time.
Those numbers are astonishing (harken back to the 11, 000 books published in 1950), and their magnitude explains why eBook users have difficulty finding the next book to read.
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In 2000 Alloy churned out 100 books, but margins were low until Diamond and company decided to scale back the business and develop books that could work in other media.
Time to go back and hit the books.
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The Gulf monarchies, meanwhile, have fallen back on their cheque books, vying to lavish the Palestinians with aid.
To bring the books back towards balance, Mr Stoiber is pinning his hopes mainly on faster economic growth, helped by his labour-market initiatives, which he says could create between 700, 000 and 800, 000 jobs.
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From book festivals and other writers, to fans who only knew his cheery bearded face from the photo at the back of his books, people were quick to respond.
Following the ceremony, the Director-General was guided through the old and the renovated premises of the University, which contains the world's largest collection of children's books in different languages, dating back to before the Russian Revolution in 1918.
"It saddens me that he will never see his untidy study, never use the books or go back to his lifetime of work, " she said.
Last week Tanya Streeter dived into the record books by descending 400 feet into the ocean and propelling herself back to the surface, all with one very deep breath lasting three and a half minutes.
All of the devices also offer the ability to download and play back electronic books, audio books, and MP3 music files.
It involved countless volunteers, who scoured periodicals and books from the present day back to centuries past in order to track down every word.
Seed catalogs, gardening books and National Geographic magazines going back to the 1930s line the walls, along with travel guides to Turkey, Bulgaria and Vietnam.
Investment banks committed to financing huge leveraged buyouts are stuck with those loans on their books until they can convince investors to come back into the market and buy them.
The new Kindle may sport 2 gigs of storage--far more than the 256 megabytes in the last version--but given that both Kindles can store data on the Internet and wirelessly download it back to the device, Kindle 2's capacity of 1, 500 books is largely overkill.
Most of these speakers have books, DVDs or CDs to sell at the back of the room.
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What ministers are dearly hoping is that the books will quickly be forgotten and they can get back to business as normal.
We are giving 50% of the net profits back to our contributors and we are not marketing our books in a traditional way.
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The books, which Mr Warren's father brought back to America as a German war souvenir in 1945, are among only ten surviving examples.
Peterson stays with people who are semiliterate, so he goes back to the product-development groups and makes sure they are designing phones with address books that use symbols like snakes and soccer balls instead of names.
Back then, before Gutenberg, it was quite literally impossible for a scholar to afford the books that he might require.
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It throws me back to summers in elementary school when my older sister and I would borrow books from the library.
It launched Tuesday in Apple's App Store and is from MyPublisher, the first company to create affordable custom physical books from digital images, back in 1994.
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At the weekend, former Autonomy CEO and HP executive Mike Lynch fired back at Whitman after accusations that he and his people had cooked the books before selling to HP.
Is this, then, a test case for publishers who could work in tandem with the fans of underappreciated and out-of-print books to bring them back into circulation?
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When "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer told an MTV interviewer last year that she doesn't plan to write more vampire books anytime soon, "Twi-hards" struck back on the Internet.
Some countries have laws on the books dating back centuries saying that any navigational aid certified by the government has to be controlled by that government and be based within its territorial borders.
Its meticulous records from church documents and sagas, a set of semihistorical books, let the country's 290, 000 residents trace their family trees back to the earliest days.
It will eliminate the pay to play, restore some of the most restrictive rules in the past that's been put back on the books.
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