And without lots of consumers with the hardware, the publishers' interest in making e-book titles is sparse.
Mac's Fireweed, an independent bookstore and a Whitehorse institution, offers a nice selection of magazines and a huge catalogue of book titles.
This decision does not effect any e-book titles currently in library circulation.
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Superman stories have proliferated in every medium, beginning with his two extremely long-running comic-book titles and a newspaper comic strip that launched in 1938-39.
The Digital Shift blog is reporting that as of today, Penguin Group USA will no longer permit any library lending of its new e-book titles.
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Random House publishes about 1, 500 new book titles every year.
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.
The museum, which already has two oil paintings by Fox in its collection, said although the pictures in the book do not have titles they are clearly views of Dudley and the surrounding area.
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The second half of 2012 was stronger for physical book sales, as blockbuster titles from authors including JK Rowling and Jamie Oliver hit the shelves for Christmas.
"It is our responsibility to introduce classics to the next generation, because there's such a flood of new titles on the book market right now, especially in young adult literature, and we have to make sure that the books that we love go into the hands of our own children, " Blume tells Linda Wertheimer.
Google just opened its electronic book store, with 3 million titles.
Book publisher HarperCollins would join newspaper titles such as the Sun.
That's behind an in-house book sale in June that highlights titles such as Six Ways to Get Rich Through Direct Sales, The World's Most Outstanding Salesperson and The Early Files of China's Rich.
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.
Marvel made comic book history in 2011 by announcing all titles in the Ultimate Comics line would include codes for free digital copies on the Marvel Comics app, with unrivaled incentives for comic shop retailers.
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Or the new book with a selection of back-catalogue titles added on for an extra fiver.
Even the smallest independent bookstore will have access to a sophisticated electronic-book sales service with a vast selection of titles.
It couldn't be learned whether Apple will sell the HarperCollins titles via a new e-book store or through its existing iTunes Store, which sells music, television shows and movies.
Several senior publishing executives said recently they were concerned that a digital-lending program of the sort contemplated by Amazon would harm future sales of their older titles or damage ties to other book retailers.
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The volunteer team conducted a book drive in July that gathered 3, 000 titles.
The big publishers sent sales representatives to forge personal relationships with small-time book buyers and encouraged them to push their new titles to whoever walked into their stores.
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That marked an increase of about 5% from 2011, but the value of the entire book market shrank because of heavy discounting of digital titles - with many bestsellers retailing for less than a pound.
While Sony does have access to millions of books with Google Book integration, it only has 200, 000 paid titles.
Enhanced Editions, a U.K. book-app publisher founded in 2008, released enhanced titles from big-name authors such as Stephen King, Barack Obama, Nick Cave and Hilary Mantel.
Publishers also benefited by having more of their products on the shelves because the large commercial book retailers stocked between 10 and 25 times as many titles as the small independents.
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With no new titles remaining, Lions Gate will focus on pumping up book sales internationally, in hopes that it can draw an even more global viewership for "Catching Fire, " Mr. Friedman said.
If each library were to review just one unique book a month, as a group they would cover 192, 000 titles in a year.
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These titles will soon be available for printing on demand at every Espresso Book Machine.
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