Many have predicted the eventual demise of physical books, as e-book readers and e-book demand soars.
Publishers have largely resisted e-book library lending because they're concerned it might undermine their own e-book sales.
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The company has spent heavily on promoting its e-book reader, the Nook, and e-book sales in its stores.
Another interesting fact from the study: e-book borrowers are avid e-book buyers.
Close on the heels of the launch of its e-book store in Brazil, Amazon announced the launch of its Kindle e-book store in China last Thursday.
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She said the popularity of e-readers and tablet computers as Christmas presents had also helped to make January Surrey's busiest e-book month so far, with 2, 469 e-book loans.
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.
Formatting and layout of text in the e-book may be different, but the informational content of an e-book will not differ in any substantive respect from that of a tangible, printed copy of the same book.
According to the complaint, the five publishers and Apple were unhappy that competition among e-book sellers had reduced e-book prices and the retail profit margins of the book sellers to levels they thought were too low.
Earlier this year, Pew research found that about one in five U.S. adults have read an e-book in the past year, and that e-book users tend to read over 30% more books per year than people who only read printed material.
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The Right Fight, by Saj-Nicole Joni and Damon Beyer, is available in book, e-book and audio formats.
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The Right Fight, by Saj-Nicole Joni and Damon Beyer (HarperCollins, 2010), is available in book, e-book and audio formats.
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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When the company reported on Wednesday that e-book and e-reader sales were up 30% over last year and that pre-orders for the new line of Nook e-readers were up 240% over past versions of the device, shares jumped.
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"After the hyper growth in the e-book market over the last few years, consumers have settled into their book formats of choice, and while e-books will continue to drive growth in the book category in the future, physical book sales will have a longer tail (or longer life expectancy) than previously anticipated, " he said in a call with investors.
Now that it has nailed the e-book business, E Ink is diversifying again.
For book publishing companies, e-readers present another way to sell their products and a way to get things to print faster, as an e-book can be distributed faster than a paper copy.
When the US Department of Justice sued Apple and five major book publishers over alleged e-book price rigging, it immediately became clear that a few of these companies would do just about anything to avoid trial.
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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.
Like many of the e-book readers that followed, it used e-ink - an innovation developed by a US company of the same name.
Over 80% of Fire owners have purchased an e-book, and 58% had purchased more than three e-books within 15-60 days of buying the Fire.
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Adding to potential worries, Apple and five book publishers were accused by the Justice Department of colluding to raise e-book prices.
Ever since the Department of Justice went after Apple, Amazon and the book publishers for price fixing, Amazon went back to setting e-book prices as it sees fit.
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She published her own book, The Beginner's Guide to TV Interviews, as an e-book through her website.
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As for e-book sales, Amazon did say earlier this summer that it sells 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books (Of course, e-books are much cheaper than hardcover).
Through their conspiracy, the companies imposed a new model under which the publishers seized e-book pricing authority from all of their retail bookstores and raised prices for e-books.
Mickey Cargile, managing partner at Cargile Investments, notes that the e-book revolution is continuing through an Apple iPhone application, called Books.app, which is an e-reader.
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