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One-third of British find the book world too intimidating

Mar 25 2009: A British report indicates that publishers, retailers and librarians are missing out on a potential market of 20m consumers (about 1/3 of the British population) because the book world is too intimidating.

In many lower-income non-professional families, books were ...

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Fictionwise Launches Free eReader E-book App for Blackberry

Mar 24 2009: Publishers Weekly reports that Fictionwise, the e-book etailor recently acquired by Barnes & Noble, has launched a beta version of its popular eReader app for the Blackberry smartphone. Fictionwise’s 50,000 title catalog is already available for the iPhone, Palm, ...

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Women more avid readers than men

Mar 24 2009: A study of reading habits showed almost half of women are 'page turners' who finish a book soon after starting it compared to only 26 per cent of men. The survey of 2,000 British adults also found those who take a long time to read books and only managed one or two a...

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Sony make half-million books available for free

Mar 19 2009: Aiming to outdo Amazon, Sony has done a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to the Amazon Kindle. The books are all out of copyright having been written before 1923.

Sony is hoping that the partnership...

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Half of UK under 16s prefer to read than spend time on social networks

Mar 18 2009: Almost half the UK's under-16s would rather read books than speak to their friends on social networks or other online sites - according to recent research.

The research was commissioned by the UK TV program, The Book Show, produced by Sky Arts. The poll surveyed 2000 ...

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US book sales rise slightly in January

Mar 16 2009: Shelf Awareness reports that January bookstore sales in the USA were $2.286 billion, up $1 million over January 2008, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. This marked the first gain for bookstore sales in four months.

The slight gain was all the...

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Despite recession, book sales up in Europe

Mar 16 2009: Despite being mired in recession sales of books in Europe are up - although sales are flat in Britain, they are up in much of Continental Europe.

For example, the number of books sold in France rose 2 percent in December from a year earlier and 2.4 percent in January...

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade for sale or not?

Mar 12 2009: Today, Publishers Weekly reports that the sale of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s trade and reference group is moving forward with four serious bidders including Hachette, Random House, a group led by a former HMH executive Wendy Strothman, and a independent publishing ...

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