Despite the previous dire warnings about where the industry may be headed in the days of print-versus-digital upheaval, Bowker, a leading source of information on the book industry as a whole, released its findings from its 2011 annual report. The results showed that the print industry grew by six percent that year, the largest growth in four years, but there’s a caveat: the … [Read more...] about Bowker Study Shows It’s a Good Time to Be a Book
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Harris Interactive Statistics Demonstrate the Use of eReaders
A recent article by Paul Biba at Teleread gave some more definitive numbers on the popularity of e-readers and digital editions. The information came from a survey by Harris Interactive from over 2,000 adult respondents in February this year.One of the larger surprises from the data was the lack of age polarization in the use of e-readers. Unlike the very typical divide in … [Read more...] about Harris Interactive Statistics Demonstrate the Use of eReaders
Bowker Drives The Data Behind Book Sales
In order for any industry or sector to not only survive but to move forward, there is vital data that must be collected in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the industry as a whole. For so many aspects of the book publishing industry, from traditional print publishing on a large scale down to self-published authors of ebooks, a lot of the information about consumer … [Read more...] about Bowker Drives The Data Behind Book Sales
Metadata Helps Indie Authors Market Their Books
There is no shortage of authors writing books and thanks to the multitude of platforms to create an ebook or a print-on-demand physical book, there is also no shortage of ways an author can go about getting his work into the hands of the reading public, even while bypassing the traditional publishing industry altogether.One thing that authors cannot easily do, however, is … [Read more...] about Metadata Helps Indie Authors Market Their Books
Bowker, BookStats Provide Industry Data
At last week’s SelfPub BookExpo, R. R. Bowker was on hand and provided valuable information to attendees in both a panel and in the distribution of the information that Bowker works diligently to make available to the entire publishing industry.“It was a highly engaging panel,” said Kelly Gallagher, VP of Publishing Services at R. R. Bowker. “It’s always illuminating for … [Read more...] about Bowker, BookStats Provide Industry Data
E-book Fans Devoted to Fiction
Though ebooks have risen in popularity enough to begin dwarfing print edition sales, one segment of the reading market has not budged much on their preferences. Fiction ebooks have vastly outsold non-fiction, so far that only one non-fiction genre —biography/autobiography— was even represented in the number of significant ebook sales, which may speak to the tastes of the … [Read more...] about E-book Fans Devoted to Fiction