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The latest news from Amazon that their Kindle book readers are outselling printed books is just the latest step towards a digital world. The sales figures show that in July 2010 Kindle outsold hard backs, and surpassed the paperbacks in January 2011. So far this year, the sales of Kindle are treble what they were [...]  The biggest book fair in the world, afloat, showed in Dubai. It came to the cutting edge cruise terminal, which DP World runs, Port Rashid, on the Logos of Hope ship. Running through the 6th of February, the exhibition hosts more than 7,200 volumes on many topics. You may find healthcare, cookery, science, arts, sports, philosophy, [...] Beginning October 6, U.K. authors and publishers of e-books will be able to get a 70% royalty option at Amazon’s Kindle Digital Text Platform. This option has been available in the U.S. for months, but now the British will have it too. It means that instead of reaping only about one third of the profits [...] Online retailer Amazon has announced that digital e-books have been outselling hardback paper books for three months in the States. Amazon revealed that they have sold nearly 150 e-books compared to every 100 paper books they sold during the last 6 months. Amazon own the Kindle e-reader and offer over 600,000 titles compatible with this device, they [...] Thanks to the anonymity that electronic readers provide, a larger reading base of 30 year olds who previously would not have been seen dead with a Mills & Boon novel are now downloading them in multitudes. In particular, the ‘Spice’ category of Mills & Boon books is selling quite well via the Kindle and Sony Reader. [...] Amazon has been accused of bullying several Scottish booksellers out of business in a matter that has been sent over to the Office of Fair Trading. The bookshops often use Amazon for online business and as a part of their trade. However, Amazon has now informed the bookshops that they are not allowed to offer the [...] |
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