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CourseSmart Expands Rental Options | Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

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  • Rebecca Davis on 06 Sep 13
     
    "CourseSmart also introduced Subscription Packs, which allow students to fill six slots in a "digital bookshelf" for a flat fee of $200. "
Rebecca Davis

E-book Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines | Pew Internet Libraries - 2 views

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  • The population of e-book readers is growing. In the past year, the number of those who read e-books increased from 16% of all Americans ages 16 and older to 23%. At the same time, the number of those who read printed books in the previous 12 months fell from 72% of the population ages 16 and older to 67%.
  • number of owners of either a tablet computer or e-book reading device such as a Kindle or Nook grew from 18% in late 2011 to 33% in late 2012. As of November 2012, some 25% of Americans ages 16 and older own tablet computers such as iPads or Kindle Fires, up from 10% who owned tablets in late 2011. And in late 2012 19% of Americans ages 16 and older own e-book reading devices such as Kindles and Nooks, compared with 10% who owned such devices at the same time last year.
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At 75, University-Press Association Rides the 'Second Digital Wave' - Wired Campus - Th... - 0 views

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  • They’ve already worked their way into most presses’ planning, according to an AAUP survey on digital-publishing strategies released just ahead of the meeting. The survey, “Digital Book Publishing Strategies in the AAUP Community,” collected responses from 80 presses, or 60 percent of the association’s membership.
  • In his experience, university presses get 60 to 70 percent of their retail revenues from Amazon sales now.
  • The discussion no longer revolves around whether presses need e-books but what business model or models incorporating them will work best in the current climate.
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  • More notable findings: Ninety-three percent of responding presses reported that they’re pursuing short-run digital printing and/or print on demand for their backlist titles; more than 70 percent are doing the same for their new or front-list titles. Eighty-six percent sell certain e-book titles through aggregators. Almost 60 percent are trying print-on-demand for foreign distribution—a new category on the survey. And a quarter of those surveyed said they’re trying out short-form digital books, like Princeton’s Digital Shorts series (tagline: “Short Takes, Big Ideas”).
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  • Rebecca Davis on 12 Jun 12
     
    interesting model for getting print books published as ebooks
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