Barnes and Noble has released a potential giant killer. It’s a new color version of their Nook e-book reader, but it has features which put Amazon.com’s Kindle to shame, and even has some features not available on Apple’s iPad. It’s an outstanding bargain at only $249.
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Kristin McLean, executive director of The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC), a national non-profit trade association for the children’s book industry, did survey to see what sparked book sales. It was a poll, not a scientific study, but the results from 431 book buyers were revealing.
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Will the venerable Oxford English Dictionary (OED) become a thing of the past? No, but it is likely to become incorporeal.
A spokesperson for Oxford University Press told the Oxford Times, in response to a story in the Telegraph contending the next edition of the OED will be all-digital, that “No decision has yet been made on the format of the third edition. It’s likely to be more than a decade before the full edition is published and a decision on format will be taken at that point. Lexicographers are currently preparing the third edition of the OED, which is 28 per cent complete. No final completion date is yet confirmed.”
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E-books have finally seemed to take hold in the marketplace in a big way. The major publishers are selling more e-books than they are paper books, and Christian publishers will not be far behind in captializing on this trend.
Hachette recently announced that James Patterson had sold 1.14 million e-books to date, the first author to top the one million e-book sales list. Of those, 867,881 were Kindle books.
Five authors– Charlaine Harris, Stieg Larsson, Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson and Nora Roberts, have each sold more than 500,000 Kindle books, according to Amazon. “Over the past three months for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books.”
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The number of books available as iPhone apps now exceeds the number of games. The iPad–and better functioning iPad-like devices being released by other companies soon–is likely to spark a reading revolution that will also touch the Christian writers and publishers.
According to data released earlier this month by the mobile phone advertising company Mobclix, there are more than 27,000 books now available as apps. Games lag behind, with 25,400 published this year, followed by entertainment, education and travel.
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