Research company Nielsen found that in the UK, sales of e-books are falling while sales of paper books are rising.

尼尔森研究公司发现，在英国，电子书的销量在下降，而纸质书的销量在上升。

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The first multimedia e-books — with sounds to accompany novels — will be available this Friday in the UK.

第一本多媒体电子书将于本周五在英国面世，书中小说配有声音。

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"When we sold our family home, we put the proceeds in a UK e-savings account," David adds. "I wish we'd transferred the money into euros - we'd have now been about third better off."

“我们把家里的房子卖了后，就把收入存入了英国电子储蓄帐户，”大卫补充说“我真希望我们把钱都兑成了欧元，那样我们现在就可以保住三分之一的钱。”

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Another company working with E-Ink is UK firm Plastic Logic.

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Priceline will launch in Europe in the autumn, potentially providing competition to UK e-commerce start-ups such as Lastminute.com.

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Amazon said this week that it was selling more e-books in the UK than hardbacks, underlining the pressure on High Street book chains such as Waterstone's.

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