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Australia’s book retailers had a tough year in 2010. Nielsen BookScan’s figures show that A$1.26 billion (€942 million) passed through the retailers’ tills, 4.2% down on the previous year. Volume of books sold was flat at 66.2 million units (although that’s not bad for a population of around 22 million!). Fiction accounted for 28% of sales, children’s books 24% and nonfiction 48%.

Digital Textbooks Reaching the Tipping Point in the U.S. Higher Education — A Revised Five-Year Projection « The Xplanation
Over the next 5 years, digital textbook sales in the United States will surpass 25% of combined new textbook sales for the Higher Education and Career Education markets.

Digital Textbook Sales in U.S. Higher Education — A Five-Year Projection « The Xplanation
Over the next five years, digital textbook sales in the United States will surpass 18% of combined new textbook sales for the Higher Education and Career Education markets.

Print Declines Outpace Digital Gains
Sales of print books in the major trade categories fell 22.9% in the first six months of 2011 at the houses that report figures to the Association of American Publishers. The declines were greatest among the adult segments, with sales down by more than 20% in the hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market paperback categories. While e-book sales jumped 161.3% in the six-month

IDC's Digital Universe 2011
The world’s information is doubling every two years. In 2011 the world will create a staggering 1.8 zettabytes. By 2020 the world will generate 50 times the amount of information and 75 times the number of "information containers"

Metadata Perspectives Conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair | Publishing Perspectives
those titles in Nielsen’s top-selling 85,000 with complete data records sold 70% more copies on average than those with incomplete metadata.

E-book Sales Doubled in July
Despite the strong July performance, adult hardcover sales were down 17.8% for the seven month period, while e-book sales were up 152.8%, to $560.5 million.

Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, Three New Kindle Models Starting at $79
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who took the stage to conduct the event, started by annoucing three new Kindle products: the Kindle Touch wifi for $99, Kindle Touch 3G for $149, and a basic (non-touch) Kindle for $79. The touch models can be pre-ordered today and ship on November 21. The basic model ships today.

Xmplar - XML editing, XML publishing
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PMP records $11.3millino net loss for fiscal year 2011
PMP's print division, which includes printer Griffin Press, recorded earnings before interest, tax and significant items of $55.4 million for the period, up 16% on the previous year. The division recorded an overall decline of 2.8% in print volumes, with the print volumes for books declining by 15.9%.

CengageBrain: Access your textbooks, eBooks, eChapters and study tools
Campus booksellers are being given the opportunity to sell electronic versions of textbooks as a result of a new digital platform launched by Cengage Learning called CengageBrain.

B&N Will Stock Amazon Publishing Titles, With Caveat
the dominant bricks-and-mortar bookseller will stock books published by Amazon, “if we are provided all formats for all of our channels.” Lynch noted that “we will not stock physical books in our stores if we are not offered the available digital format.

First Monday: Non–traditional book publishing
Non–traditional book publishing, prospering on the Internet, now accounts for over eight times the output of traditional publishing. Non–traditional publishing includes books published by their authors and books representing the reuse of content, most of it not covered by copyright.

Amazon Media Room:News Release
North America segment sales, representing the Company's U.S. and Canadian sites, were $5.41 billion, up 51% from second quarter 2010.

Highlighter Gives Publishers Extensive Analytics of Their Content
Highlighter is a free plugin that allows users to highlight or annotate text from a site and then share it with friends on Facebook and Twitter, the idea being to give every Highligher-equipped blog or website a measure of social media interactivity.