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  Amazon’s Russ Grandinetti at DBW: Kindle Fire Owners Buy More Children’s Books

  1436 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid The time for children’s digital picture books may have finally come. Owners of the new Amazon tablet computer, Kindle Fire, buy nearly three times more children’s books as their e-ink Kindle counterparts, according to Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle content, who spoke this morning at the Digital

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  Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Drive E-Book Sales Increase

  2262 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Sales for books available to Amazon Prime subscribers through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library have increased over the two months of the program’s existence, according to Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle content, who spoke this morning at the Digital Book World Conference in New York. Books not

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  NBC News Launches Book Publishing Arm, NBC Publishing

  1256 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid NBC News is launching a book publishing arm to capitalize on growth in e-reader and tablet adoption, the decreasing cost of e-book production and a backlog of over one million hours of video content. NBC Publishing, as the business unit will be called, will be part of NBC

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  Barnes & Noble to Share More Reader Data with Publishers

  803 readers Barnes & Noble vice president of e-books, Jim Hilt. Photo credit: Babette Ross By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid — Join the conversation! DBW Wednesday only 1-day conference rate: $595, Sheraton Hotel, 2nd Fl., 811 7th Ave., NYC — Barnes & Noble will share more reader data with publishers to collaborate and sell more e-books, according to

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  David Houle at DBW: ‘Explosion of Choice’ Gives Power to Readers

  458 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid The explosion of consumer choice has shifted power to consumers and away from producers, said David Houle, a futurist and author of the book The Shift Age and the keynote speaker at the Digital Book World Conference this morning in New York. Publishers sitting in the audience, who

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  Ken Follett’s Kindle Sales Dropped 48% After $2 Price Increase On Book

  Array readersOn the stage at Digital Book World today, Russ Grandinetti, VP of Kindle Content at Amazon, spoke about the benefits of releasing books in eBook form. Boasting Amazon’s sales figures –the Kindle being the top selling item of all time; Kindle owners...

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  Innovative Publishing: Shuffle From Tonto Books

  308 readers As e-reader adoption begins to wane and consumers buy more tablet computers, publishers are scrambling to provide the enhanced, innovative reading experiences readers are coming to expect. It’s not just about the straight-text ebook anymore. Shuffle, a title from Tonto Books, exemplifies the best in innovative reading experiences. It won the Publishing Innovation Award for best

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  Sourcebooks CEO Raccah: Agile Publishing Model New Path to Discoverability

  1568 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid — Join the conversation! DBW Wednesday only 1-day conference rate: $595, Sheraton Hotel, 2nd Fl., 811 7th Ave., NYC — Building audience participation before the writing and publication of a book is a way to help readers discover new work, according to Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah speaking on a panel

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  Publishers’ Love Affair with Apps Is Over

  600 readers Forrester vice president and research analyst James McQuivey. Photo credit: Babette Ross for Digital Book World By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid — Join the conversation! DBW Wednesday only 1-day conference rate: $595, Sheraton Hotel, 2nd Fl., 811 7th Ave., NYC — Publishers have become disillusioned with apps as a revenue growth opportunity, according to research from

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  E-Book Adoption in U.S. Nearing 25%, India and Brazil Best New Opportunity

  474 readersBy Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid In April and March, nearly a quarter of Americans tried reading an e-book, up from about 20% in February, according to new data from Bowker. In a presentation at the Publishers Launch conference in New York mostly focused on international adoption of e-books and e-reading, Bowker’s president of publishing