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  Millennial Media releases report on mobile ad trends in the travel industry

  1119 readersWhile the airlines and their custom publishing partners try and figure out their approach to tablet editions, mobile continues to prove to be a boon for the travel industry, in general, as customers use their smartphones and tablets to book flights and hotels, rent cars, and surf travel websites. Millennial Media has released a report that

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  Millennial Media releases report on mobile ad trends in the travel industry

  Array readersWhile the airlines and their custom publishing partners try and figure out their approach to tablet editions, mobile continues to prove to be a boon for the travel industry, in general, as customers use their smartphones and tablets to book flights and hotels, rent cars, and surf travel websites. Millennial Media has released a report that

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  Millennial Media releases report on mobile ad trends in the travel industry

  Array readersWhile the airlines and their custom publishing partners try and figure out their approach to tablet editions, mobile continues to prove to be a boon for the travel industry, in general, as customers use their smartphones and tablets to book flights and hotels, rent cars, and surf travel websites. Millennial Media has released a report that

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  Bookboon.com Expects 50M eBook Downloads This Year

  1056 readersBookboon.com, a free eBook website based in Denmark, reported this week that its site traffic grew by 500% over nine months of 2011. The site, which has free textbooks, business books and travel guides in about a dozen languages, expects to penetrate 10% of the U.S. market share by Q3 2012. The press release explains more:

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  E-Books With Advertisting?

  1225 readersI just saw this press release from EbookPlus, which wants to make books legally free. Sounds good, right? But wait, there’s more. That’s free, with advertising. eBookPlus.com offers any company the opportunity to create publicity to place in an eBook, whether it is a video, an image or a HTML page. The advertising is unobtrusive,

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  Bookboon – An interesting site for free ebooks

  1226 readersBookboon offers a wide range of free ebooks dealing with business, education and travel in 11 European languages.  All written specifically for them. Legal downloads or not? Lets get this  clear straight away, all these ebooks are completely legal, and free to download.  The way they do this is to accept advertisements in the body of the

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  E-Textbook Use Down Among College Students

  1881 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Fewer college students bought and used e-textbooks in the 2011 academic year than in the year prior, according to a new report. While about 6% of the textbooks students bought for courses in the 2010 academic year were digital books, only 3% were digital in 2011, according to

• Book Buyers Would Prefer Free Books With Advertising to Paying, Survey Says

  195 readers According to a recent survey, nearly half of U.S. book buyers would prefer free e-books supported by advertising than to pay even $0.99 for an e-book. The survey was conducted among 5,000 people in the U.S. and UK by eBookPlus, a company that calls itself a “pioneer” in the “sponsored e-book market.” According to the survey, in

• European Free E-Book Service Plans to Take 10% U.S. Market Share in 2012

  635 readers After receiving the press release below, we spoke with a representative from Bookboon to add additional detail to the story: – Bookboon ended 2011 with one million e-books downloaded in the U.S. It mostly traffics in textbooks. – The company expects to lend out six-to-eight million books in the U.S. in 2012 – The company is employer-advertising

• Google acquires Zagat, publisher of restaurant guides

  4316 readersThe Zagat website is letting its members know that the company that publishes restaurant guides has been acquired by Google. This may be the most important announcement in our 32 years of business: We have been acquired by another great company, Google. Nina and I will continue to be active in the business as co-Chairs; however,