Tag: book industry
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Sales of Print Books Increased Slightly in 2017
Time and time again, many have been proclaiming the death of print books but the latest statistics on the sales number for the year of 2017 says otherwise. According to Publisher’s Weekly, print book sales have risen 1.8% in 2017 compared to the sales numbers from 2016. Further proving that print is long from dead,…
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Barnes & Noble wants smaller stores
While dealing with the same number of closures of their stores as Amazon is opening more and more bookstores, Barnes & Noble has come up with a new tactic: scaling down. Instead of continuing to deal with their massive stores that are mostly empty, the idea is that the new, smaller stores will be more…
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Google is Getting in the Audiobook Action
Is Amazon’s monopoly over audiobooks at an end? Android Police, a website devoted to mostly Android phones, recently studied some of the coding for the new update for Google’s play store and found references to audiobook formats along with the existing apps, eBooks, and games they sell. Seeing as how Google does not currently offer…