The book world meets at a moment of relative calm during an age of revolutionary change.
The book world is swayed by fads, too, though at much more sedate pace compared to the clothing business.
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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Hear executives from Kobo speak in multiple sessions at the upcoming Digital Book World 2013 digital publishing conference in New York.
In the e-book world, the competition between publishers really happens at various price points, which makes the lists much more useful for publishers.
FORBES: Big Publishers, High Prices Dominate E-Book Best-Sellers
"There is a tremendous opportunity to re-energise a wonderful brand and to re-establish Waterstone's at the hub of the UK book world, " he said.
Today, over at Digital Book World, I wrote a blog post about three kinds of digital book publishing start-ups that I am bullish on.
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The next several hours were a blur, in which we published six items on Digital Book World and I wrote one that was published here.
When I first joined Digital Book World in Oct. 2011, I knew very little about the book publishing industry and almost nothing about ebooks.
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To answer these questions, we at Digital Book World created ebook Publisher Power Rankings, to rank just how well each publisher is doing against the other.
Seth takes on the book world as just another writer with a novel in English, demanding no indulgence for the exotic experience of being from a distant commonwealth.
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.
With action scenes shot in Glasgow's George Square and starring Brad Pitt, it has been adapted from Max Brooks' 2006 book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
Wait for You went on sale in late Feb. and hit the No. 1 spot on the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller list on March 10, a first for a self-published book.
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Jamie Oliver became the second-highest earner in the book world with his recipe collections, while memoirs from Peter Kay, Paul O'Grady and Jeremy Clarkson all feature in The Bookseller's top 100 books of the decade.
According to a new study conducted by research firm PlayScience and Digital Book World, nearly 40% of parents who have e-reading children aged 2-to-13 plan on buying them some sort of e-reading device this holiday season.
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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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Weighing in at 5 pounds on a thick gold chain, the creation was named the world's largest non-religious neck pendant by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Guinness Book of World Records taught me to believe in the accessibility of the improbable.
We actually got a Guinness Book of World Records for developing this lightest solid material in the world.
The iPhone remains what the book publishing world calls a category killer.
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Fitting so many traders and salesmen together into a single, cavernous room won UBS a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir displayed in Seattle, Washington.
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They contacted Patrick K. O'Donnell, a military historian who had interviewed Joyeuse a decade earlier for a book on World War II espionage.
If Airbus appears to covet recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records, Boeing seems predisposed to making a favorable impression in airlines' inventories.
The oldest person who ever lived was Louise Calment of France, a woman who topped 122 years, the Guinness Book of World Records reports.
In 1975, Ross McWhirter, co-editor and compiler of the Guinness Book of World Records, was shot dead by Irish Republican Army gunmen at his home.
"The Guinness Book of World Records changed my life, " Puntillo says.
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