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E-books overtake paper in China

Apr 28, 2015

Digital media have overtaken books as the most read media in China, according to a national survey released on Monday. About 58.1 percent of Chinese adults read digitally in 2014, up 8 percent, while 58 percent read books, only 0.2 percent up, said an annual survey on...

Is the Traditional Publishing Industry Finally Catching Up?

Apr 23, 2015

By Mercy Pilkington Only a handful of years ago, self-published authors fought for legitimacy and respect while readers, retailers, and the traditional publishing industry scoffed at the notion that anyone would buy a book that hadnÔÇÖt been passed through the...

Children’s Print Book Sales Buck the Trend

Apr 23, 2015

By Jonathan Nowell | At our Nielsen ChildrenÔÇÖs Summit in New York in December, we talked about how childrenÔÇÖs print book sales around the world in the last couple of years have been nothing short of fantastic. Total print sales in the US rose 2%, but childrenÔÇÖs...

Apple moves Audiobooks to iBooks,

Apr 23, 2015

By Roger Fingas Apple’s newly released iOS 8.4 beta relocates audiobooks out of the Music app into iBooks, and it adds a separate launcher for them in CarPlay, AppleInsider has discovered. With the first beta of iOS 8.4, CarPlay users will see a new...

Amazon.com Swing to Earnings Loss Expected

Apr 23, 2015

By Narrative Science Analysts are predicting grim results for Amazon.com when the company releases its first quarter numbers on Thursday, April 23, 2015. They are expecting the company to take a loss of 12 cents a share after Amazon.com booked a profit of 23 cents a...

Why Twitter is the top tool for IT professionals

Apr 4, 2015

by Dee Blick As an IT professional, you can be forgiven for thinking that LinkedIn is the only space to profile-raise online. But consider Twitter. ItÔÇÖs no longer just home to celebrities. Today youÔÇÖre as likely to find the CEO of a global brand on Twitter, not to...