The joint venture will exclude Bertelsmann's trade publishing business in Germany and Pearson will retain rights to use the Penguin brand in education markets worldwide.
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That year, ebooks represented 0.05% of all trade publishing revenues.
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Ebooks now account for 23% of trade publishing revenues.
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It is, for example, hard to believe factory output is going up when electricity consumption is going down and a trade group stopped publishing power statistics.
Google has some 4000 publishing partners in the project, including trade, educational, science, medical, and university publishers.
Last year, the Federal Trade Commission went after websites publishing fake news stories about the supposed health benefits of acai, many of them quoting experts like Oz, that were really fronts for supplement sellers.
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Barbara Meredith, vice-president of professional and scholarly publishing at the Association of American Publishers, a trade group, has said that a demand for open access to research findings could undermine the sustainability of the publishing industry, and has promised to lobby vigorously against this happening.
An unhappy Jobs called Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer after the software company, and Apple rival, snapped up Bungie Studios in June of 2000, Ed Fries, former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft said in an interview with Develop, a videogame trade magazine .
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Even Jupiter CEO Alan Meckler has recently started publishing a surprisingly personal blog about Jupiter's effort to launch a trade show to rival Comdex, the troubled annual technology trade show.
Nickell is publishing his findings in a two-part article in Manuscript magazine, the main trade organ for the historical document-collecting crowd.
Instead, he believes that the best way to get data you want is to trade other data, which could provide business value far beyond the returns of publishing data in exchange for cash.
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