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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Penguin and The Economist form partnership | Media | guardian.co.uk
I’ve been wondering why this hasn’t already happened. I expect to see parts of Penguin get event closer to parts of the rest of Pearson as publishing companies shift and adapt under pressure from digital change. The tools of The Economist in particular could be valuable to Penguin as this effort shows: The Penguin…
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Continue reading →: The Growth Of The UK Ebook Market
Really fascinating glimpse of the development of the UK ebook business from BML/Bowker (as a teaser for their annual conference in March): The survey also looks at how the e-book industry fares by genre. The adult fiction market saw spectacular e-book growth in 2011, up from 2.8% of purchases in…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | New EPUB spec gives tech companies the edge | Arthur Attwell
Arthur nails it. One of the many concerns I have for small and medium sized publishers is that they will simply lose the technical ability to service large parts of the market should that market start to demand more than just straight forward text: But for publishers, these possibilities extend the technical…
