The shrinkage of the printed book business - particularly in non-fiction - has also led the publisher setting up ad-funded websites Honest John - for car enthusiasts, the Complete University Guide and home-grown veg site Allotments.
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He looked around and discovered a burgeoning industry of companies that help authors publish their own books in any format they like, from the traditional printed book to e-books and Amazon's Kindle, and now for the iPad.
In the book Schwarzenegger re-printed a photograph of a United Nations speech on combating global warming that he gave in 2007.
We approached our current publisher with the idea, but they were appalled by the cost of publishing a printed book with some 300 four-color illustrations.
An e-book, I realized, is far different from an old-fashioned printed one.
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.
The book-to-bill ratio for printed circuit boards was 1.02 in June, up from 1.0 in May and 0.97 in April, according to IPC, an industry trade association.
Pew found that nearly three-fourths of U.S. adults read a printed book in 2011, and 11% listened to an audiobook.
Because the chips were so small and easy to make, they could be embedded in documents as they were printed, stuck to any surface or made into a book of self-adhesive dots, he added.
In this context, Minister Poghosyan underscored the successful impact of the designation of Yerevan as the World Book Capital in 2012 and invited the Director-General to attend the closing celebration on 10-11 December coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the first Armenian printed book in the country.
The Samsung e-book displays reflect light naturally and deliver an appearance similar to that of printed paper, allowing people to read more naturally than they would with other backlit electronic paper devices.
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In portrait mode, about 30-35 lines of text are visible, offering an experience similar to that of a printed paperback book, says the company.
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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But despite the huge growth in e-books in the past few years, the traditional publishing houses are not yet predicting the end of printed book.
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