Almost twelve years later in August 2010, Amazon.co.uk introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books to customers in the UK. By May 2011, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, at a rate of more than 2 to 1.

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In fact, figures for 2012 show that while e-book sales are still on the rise, the rate of decline in print sales has actually slowed.

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With so much in the air regarding e-book sales (such as author royalties, size of market, rate of growth, etc) publishers are still running scared of e-books on the whole.

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"OCBC can absorb an NPL rate of 19.6% without impairing its book value, " says Salomon banking analyst John Doyle, who also favors UOB, which boasts the lowest NPL rate - 5.1% - among the Big Four.

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In a new column here, The Case Against Do It Yourself Wills, Forbes columnist Deborah L. Jacobs (a lawyer as well as a first-rate journalist and book author), reports a litany of problems with do it yourself-wills.

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Most publishers offer a digital royalty rate that amounts to 10% to 15% of a book's retail price.

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The book romps through history at a terrific rate: from ancient Greece through the Islamic empire of the 13th century, 15th-century China and Renaissance Europe to 20th-century America.

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On the evidence of his book, Mr Gore is not therefore an environmental extremist not, at any rate, judged by what he has promised to do.

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Over the same time period its revenue per share increased at an annual rate of 5.2%, free cash flow at 19.3% and book value at 8.1%.

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