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The Digital Book Market, a study by the FGEE
The Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (FGEE) with the partnership of Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez has published a study about the Digital Book Market in 2009.
The report covers new digital projects in E-books, impact on publishers and their catalogues, prices, new channels for distribution and point of sale, and many other issues of interest for the publishing sector.
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E-Book Sales Jump 176% in Flat Trade Year
E-book sales from the 13 publishers that report figures to the Association of American Publishers soared 176.6% in 2009, to $169.5 million, the AAP reported Friday. The jump in e-book sales coupled with a slight decline in sales of print trade books increased e-book's share of trade sales from 1.2% in 2008 to 3.3% in 2009. Among the print trade segments, sales were down in the trade paperback, mass market paperback and children's hardcover segments, but up in adult hardcover and children's paperback.
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Barnes & Noble CEO Steve Riggio gave the most detailed account of how Barnes & Noble plans to navigate the digital waters discussing third quarter results on Tuesday. E-book sales at the company have "simply exploded" .Riggio said and B&N's market share of e-books on some titles is already higher than its share for print books. E-book sales have been helped by the release of the Nook, which Riggio said is B&N's single biggest seller, but the company has seen good growth in e-books used across a variety of devices ranging from the iPhone to Blackberrys.
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Writer seeks to motivate Hispanic kids to preserve their culture
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Study about “Consumer Attitudes toward E-Book Reading” published by BISG’S
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Helena Bonham Carter
Actress
Helena Bonham Carter’s bio sounds completely normal: British actress, 43 years old, wife of a U.S. filmmaker and the mother of two children. The only thing is that director happens to be Tim Burton, contemporary cinema’s leading creator of nightmarish tales. Bonham Carter always has a place in these macabre fantasies, playing roles that contrast completely with her aristocratic lineage, which is peopled with ancestors such as a French baroness and a Spanish diplomat. In her latest role, she dons a red wig to play the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland.
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Gabriel García Márquez
The Colombian-born Nobel winner tells fantastical tales of romance and heroism against an historic Latin American backdrop, always infusing believability by giving his writing a journalistic cast.
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Sashenka
(Sashenka)
Simon Montefiore
Simon Montefiore's first novel, is a historical whodunit with the epic sweep of a Hollywood movie. The author of the bestselling biography Young Stalin, Montefiore is a natural storyteller who brings his encyclopedic knowledge of Russian history to life in language that glitters like the ice of St. Petersburg…Here's hoping we get more spellbinding historical fiction from him.
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La nodriza
(The nurse)
Maria Vallejo Nájera
The streets of Paris smell of death, theyve just beheaded Marie Antoinette. In there wanders her nanny, Lalla, until she finds a tavern where she gets shelter in exchange for caring for a patient. On this new destination, decides to write a long letter in which she tells all the secrets of the French court since she began working as a nanny for Marie Antoinette, future queen of France and wife of Louis XVI, their political influence, their tastes, their eccentricities, until her death on October 16, 1793.
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(The Stone Manuscript)
Luis García Jambrina
Towards the end of the fifteenth century, Fernando de Rojas, a law student at the University of Salamanca and future author of La Celestina, would investigate the murder of a theology professor. The event sets off a complex plot that weaves together the circumstances of Jews and converts, unleashed passions and heterodox doctrines, the emerging wave of Humanism and Salamanca s underground movement.
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