The Percentage of Books Sold as eBooks – 30%

eBooks

  There is little doubt in the fact that future belongs to the eBooks, particularly in the developed countries. Recent stats have revealed that only in the US, the sales of eBooks have doubled from 2010 to 2011, and eBooks now account for about 30 percent of the entire books sold in the US. These [...]

Kobo Touch eReader Now Available In Japanese Market

Kobo Touch Japan

The Kobo Touch eReader has finally hit the Japanese market after success in the European market. This announcement about the eReader and its full services was made recently by Kobo, Inc. Preorders for the device for JPY 7980 had already commenced starting from July 2nd after which customers started flocking for the device. The eReader [...]

eBook Market Growth 2012

eBook Market Growth 2012

  When the phenomenon of ebooks first got popular, many critics speculated that it was only temporary and soon the world would go back to the regular, paper-back books. Yet others dreamed that ebooks would be the death of the printed word and thus, it marked a new era. As it turns out, both these [...]

Hardware Sales Decline For Barnes Noble Nook

Nook

  The fiscal 2012 financial results of Barnes & Noble are out and it seems that the sales for Nook hardware are declining. During this period, the sales from Nook hardware declined by about 10 percent, even though there was about 65 percent increase in the sales of digital eReading content. The overall performance of [...]

Noden The New Chief Financial Officer Of Books-A-Million, Inc.

Books-A-Million

Books-A-Million, Inc. recently announced R. Todd Noden as the new Chief Financial officer of the company. Brian W. White was the previous Chief Financial Officer who resigned due to personal reasons. Mr. Noden is a well known person in industry and has a 20 years worth of experience in the fields of finance and accounting. [...]

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