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  1062 readersBy Edward Nawotka With a population of some 350 million spread across 22 countries, the Arab World (as defined in this instance by membership in the Arab League) is a vast region, on par with the United States and Europe. With some 70 million between the ages of 15 to 24 (representing 19% of the population), you

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  Netherlands decides not to impose fixed price on e-books

  1386 readersThe Bookseller reports that Secretary Halbe Zjilstra from the Netherlands’ Department of Culture has announced there will be no fixed price for e-books in the Netherlands. The Netherlands (like much of Europe) has fixed prices on paper books, meant to secure wide availability of titles. However, e-books still have less than 1% of market share

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  Publishing Business Conference: Are we authors? curators? or technologists?

  807 readersDavid Aldea, Strategic Consultant, Digital Transformation/Digital Innovation, The McGraw-Hill Cos. We are becoming more connected and less private, and seem to be OK with that. Over 70% of world’s population have mobile phones and in US 90% of population have phones and 85% of children have phones. Apple has sold over 60 million iPhones with

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  Asymmetry in the Spanish Book World: Spain vs. Latin America

  1281 readersLatin America absorbed 20% of Spain’s books, while Spain took in just 2% of Latin America’s. By Julieta Lionetti A language spoken by 450 million people may appear as a huge opportunity to many publishers and retailers, but the reality of the Spanish book world says we may be wrong if approaching it from an indiscriminate global

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  Free webinar: Creating enhanced and accessible ebooks to open new markets

  1397 readers Creating Enhanced and Accessible E-books to Open Significant New Markets Wednesday, September 28, 20112:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT Are your e-books available to people with reading disabilities? If not, you are missing out on a significant percent of the marketplace. Making your content accessible isn’t just the right thing to do, it makes good business

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  paidContent 2012: Tablets – not just an iPad world

  483 readersJames McQuivey, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research:  It is an iPad world right now.  34% of the US population will have a tablet  by 2016. That’s 112.5 million tablets.  No other device in the history of consumer electronics has achieved such a high penetration in such a short time. Future will not be made only

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  Microsoft Surface Tablet Not Selling Well, Performing Under Expectations

  574 readersMicrosoft is said to have sold about 1.5 million Surface units, according to people with knowledge in the slaes area. That’s a very slow start, if you’re a company who wants to defeat the iPad and claim the throne of slates. Microsoft has only sold a bit over one million Surface RT models and about 400k

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  The Peculiar Path of the E-book Transition in Singapore

  932 readersDespite a techo-savvy population of avid readers, Singapore has been overlooked by the global e-booksellers. By Peter Schoppert Singapore is a dynamic Asian city-state, with 5.2 million residents who read in English mostly, but also in Chinese, Malay and a myriad of other languages. With a world-beating public library system (33 million loans last year), and some

• Why Print Books Still Matter to Developing & Growth Economies

  1473 readersPrint is still in demand. Maybe not here, but here is not everywhere. By Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief As we in the United States, Europe and Asia salivate over the lastest micro advancement in computing technology that makes our tablets faster, flatter and more beautiful, and while callow pundits bellow carelessly about the “death of publishing” — vast

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  eMarketer estimates the tablet market at 99M units by the end of next year, with Apple’s iPad still dominating

  2265 readersThe digital marketing media unit eMarketer has released an infographic called US Digital Media Usage: A Snapshot of 2013. It's project was sponsored by ExactTarget, by the way. The infographic covers such areas as Internet usage, ecommerce, online video, mobile and tablets. eMarketer estimates that the size of the U.S. tablet market will be 99 million users