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10% of English book sales in Canada are now in digital format - The Distant Librarian

I can't find the press release on the National Reading Campaign website, but a press release crossed my inbox this AM that sounds pretty interesting. Here's the PDF for your reading pleasure. In a nutshell, the NRC now has data...

News Corp. Reports U.K. Digital Subscriptions On Rise, Print Still Prevails - EContent Magazine

News International, part of News Corp., released figures detailing print and digital subscriptions for The Times and The Sunday Times. While print circulation has steadily declined, it has yet to be trounced by digital counterparts.

Exploring science fiction's 'Radium Age' - JSOnline

<br /><br />In an essay posted at Boing Boing, Joshua Glenn makes a case for exploring the science fiction written in the first third of the 20th century, the years following the best novels of H.G. Wells and prior to the ascendancy of sci-fi's 'Golden Age' in the 1930s.<br />

Magazine of the Year: Glamour - Blog Magazine

Much like the Oscars, last night's American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine awards presentation offered both surprising and predictable wins. Most surprising, Condé Nast’s Glamour magazine took home the top honor of Magazine of the Year. This is the...

Shonen Jump Alpha Launches; Print Magazine Goes Digital » Manga Worth Reading

Here’s an important signifier of changing times, especially when it comes to the print/digital divide. Viz’s monthly manga anthology magazine Shonen Jump has been discontinued in favor of the digital Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha. The online version launched two weeks ago, while the issue

La Stampa: the next step toward true integration - Editors Weblog

Italian daily <i>La Stampa</i> is to integrate its newsroom, taking what its editor in chief <b>Mario Calabresi</b> has described as "a step towards the future". Calabresi announced the move, which will incorporate both physical changes and staff changes as well as a change in CMS, <a

Go Read This | Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction | Media | The Guardian «

You would be forgiven if you read this piece and thought afterwards that the only print books sold in bookshops were literary fiction and non-fiction and the bulk of them Booker prize winners. Of course we know this isn’t true and just as readers of digital books like their genre fiction, so

Making the banned book list: Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic | From the Square | NYU Press blog

With one of the harshest anti-immigrant laws on the books, Arizona recently targeted Latino schoolchildren and the books teachers use to inform them about Latino history and culture. Last month, the Tucson Unified School District, on a 4-1 vote, dissolved the Mexican American … <a

Elsewhen Press signs award-winning author for philosophical science fiction | PRLog

Elsewhen Press signs award-winning author for philosophical science fiction. Latest book from Scottish author Douglas Thompson to be published by independent publisher - PR11787334

Book Publishing: Self Publishing: Why You Should Write and Publish Your Book Now

While it might not be the best time ever to be a book publisher, and while it's definitely not the best time to be a bookseller, it's a great time to be a self publishing author.

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