The 200-year-old Wiley doesn't publish War and Peace, but it has a firm position in consumer books (CliffsNotes, the For Dummies series and Frommer's guidebooks) and textbooks.
One of the most successful direct-to-consumer books actually came out years ago: "Chicken Soup for the Soul" sold over 2 million copies from its self-published origins in 1993 while the tools for all this were still in their infancy.
In a consumer world where books, movies, and newspapers are no longer on our bookshelves but in our pockets and handbags, data is king.
It's no secret that Amazon and other digital book retailers track and store consumer information detailing what books are purchased and read.
Fredericks: Tickets, books, consumer electronics, meals and takeout delivery.
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Amazon has expanded from books to consumer electronics, to cars and mobile phones. eBay started auctioning knick-knacks found in attics, but is now increasingly a virtual storefront for small dealers selling goods of all sorts.
Direct Brands Inc. is the largest direct-to-consumer club network for books, DVDs and recorded music in the U.S. The company is home to such market-leading book, DVD and music club brands as Book-of-the-Month Club, Doubleday Book Club and Columbia House, among its 24 multi-platform businesses, as well as several other special interest and lifestyle book clubs.
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These food media outlets include this column, the many airline in-flight magazines I write for, and the consumer magazines newspapers and guide books I regularly contribute to (everything from Outside to Cigar Aficionado, where I am the Contributing Travel Editor).
They may promise a fast way to lose the flab, but consumer experts have warned some diet books could damage your health.
They said they would share some consumer data about buying e-books.
The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books, and feature films.
But the company has encountered months of negotiation on whether it should be allowed to operate cafes and restaurants and sell products, such as textiles, toys, books, secondhand furniture and consumer electronics, that don't carry the IKEA brand.
The new Latitude 10 offers consumer customers rich entertainment features for movies, books and games, as well as compatibility with familiar applications and accessories to transition seamlessly between work and play.
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With sales incentives offering interest rates all the way down to zero, the car companies eventually have to funnel money into their credit subsidiaries to balance the books, so loss-making consumer-goods makers are lending money to customers to buy their wares.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a consultancy, reckons e-books will represent about 6% of consumer book sales in North America by 2013, up from 1.5% last year (see chart).
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As consumer choice widens, some people want beautifully produced printed books, while others want enhanced e-books with video and other graphics.
It will also update the law to introduce new protection for consumer who buy digital content, such as e-books, digital music, games and software.
"For the hardcore fans that have played the games, read the books, read the comics, have the consumer products, and are fully intending to dive into 'Halo 4, ' this is very much an additive experience, " Feldman said.
Data collected on the sales of physical books records around 90-95% of all consumer sales in the UK, but is less robust for the e-book market.
If publishers were prepared to sell direct to consumer, for example, they would gather data on who bought what books.
Now firms add millions of new phone subscribers to their books each month, and sales of cars, scooters and other consumer goods are surging.
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In August, consumer electronics sales growth rose 12%, apparel and accessories rose 11%, books and magazines grew 11%, according to comScore.
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