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  E-books, How Do We Love Thee? Let BISG Counts the Ways

  1164 readersAt $6,750 BISG’s latest consumer data isn’t cheap, but neither was a GPS when it was first marketed. By Peter Cook Oh, e-books, how do we love thee? let me count the ways… The ways are indeed being counted assiduously and continually and made fingertip-ready in real-time for publishers by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). The latest must-have,

• E-Book Buyers Buying More E- and Print-Books Online, Less in Stores, Study Says

  600 readers PRESS RELEASE: E-Book Consumers Drive More Sales and More Dollars through Apps and Online Retails, says BISG Study New York, New York (February 28, 2012) – E-book consumers are increasing their purchase of books—both print and e-book formats—online and especially through in-app purchasing, and decreasing their use of brick-and-mortar stores, according to the Book Industry Study Group

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  E-Book ‘Power’ Buyers Buy Less Than Their Print Counterparts

  480 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 — Those who love reading books in print may love buying them more and spending more money on them than those who are the top consumers of digital books. About 35% of

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  Book Industry Study Group: The Rosetta Stone of the Publishing Industry

  3437 readersBISG is focused on producing actionable data that will make a difference to people’s day-to-day business. Their next conference, this Friday, focuses on innovation. By Edward Nawotka “BISG’s job is, to borrow an analogy from music, to increase the ratio of signal to noise in the publishing industry,” says Scott Lubeck, Executive Director of the Book Industry

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  Ebook consumers increase their purchases of both print and ebooks, says survey

  780 readers From the press release of a survey conducted by the Book Industry Study Group: E-book consumers are increasing their purchase of books — both print and e-book formats — online and especially through in-app purchasing, and decreasing their use of brick-and-mortar stores, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s closely watched Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book

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  iPad E-Reading Market Share Stagnates as Tablet E-Reading Rises

  598 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Google is taking a bite out of Apple among consumers who read e-books. Two out of five e-book readers who choose a tablet as their primary reading device use an iPad; at the end of 2011, two-thirds of those e-book readers were using an iPad, roughly a 25 point

• Consumers Increasingly Choosing Tablets Over E-Readers, Study Says

  1165 readers PRESS RELEASE: E-Book Consumers Say “Yes” to Tablets, says BISG Study New York, New York (April 30, 2012) – E-book consumers’ preference for tablets is accelerating rapidly as dedicated e-readers drop in popularity, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s closely watched Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey. The second installment in Volume Three of the

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  BISG – Supporting an industry in transformation, with Len Vlahos, Executive Director, BISG

  958 readers What’s coming down the road. Opportunities:  sales are up,  BISG book stats now give the best picture of the industry.  Trade books grew 5%, professional books 6% and Higher ed sales 12%.  Ebook sales are moving fataster than light.  In ebooks, the number of titles acquired for fee is dropping over time.  Means that people reading

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  BISG releases policy statement on assigning ISBNs to digital products

  1817 readers This is an important matter that has created quite a bit of controversy in the industry.  From the press release: The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced today the publication of a new Policy Statement detailing best practices for assigning ISBNs to digital products. Developed over the past 18 months within BISG’s Identification Committee, BISG Policy Statement

• Ebook Market Maturing, Book Industry Study Group Says

  188 readers More ebook readers have kept their ebook buying behavior steady for some time as sales of print books have started to level off after years of decreases, according to new data from the Book Industry Study Group. “The ebook market is maturing and becoming more predictable,” said Len Vlahos, the executive director of BISG, speaking at