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Ink, Bits, & Pixels
About a week and a half ago, I reported on and expressed doubt about a new estimate from Nielsen Pubtrack which said that 6 percent fewer e-books were sold in the U.S. in 2014. At that time, I had no evidence to prove that the Pubtrack numbers were off, but since then I have been digging into the background.
Today, I can report that the Pubtrack estimate of 223 million e-books sold in the U.S. in 2014 was not just bad, it was completely erroneous.
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The New Yorker
Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist at the London headquarters of the School of Life, which offers innovative courses to help people deal with the daily emotional challenges of existence. I have to admit that at first I didn't really like the idea of being given a reading "prescription." I've generally preferred to mimic Virginia Woolf’s passionate commitment to serendipity in my personal reading discoveries.
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Indies Unlimited
One of my favorite misquotes is from Steve Martin's movie The Jerk. The phone book delivery person stops by and hands Martin's character a copy, and Martin goes off in raptures (here comes the misquote — ready?): "The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! I'm somebody now!" You too, dear author, can be an official somebody.
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GWA
Members may view and download the June issue of the Quill & Trowel. Major contents include: President's report, regional meeting announcements, symposium updates and more.
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GWA
Friday, June 12, is the last day to register for "It's all about the plants!," the June 19 GWA Regional Meeting and tour of private gardens and premiere growing facilities in the Holland, Michigan, area. Although the meeting is hosted by Region III, members and guests from all regions are welcome.
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GWA
Are you a writer who wants to learn to boost your earnings by creating and selling eLearning workshops — on a shoestring budget? Then join Susan Poizner for her daylong workshop on Sept. 22 in Pasadena, California, following the Garden Writers' Association Annual Symposium.
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GWA
Make a donation to the Garden Writers Association Foundation and have your name entered to win a laptop computer, digital SLR camera, TV or an iPad! Drawing will take place at the Annual Awards Banquet.
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GWA
The GWA Association Outreach Task Force, charged with expanding awareness of our members to various industry associations, has again planned for GWA to have a major presence at the horticulture industry's largest trade show, Cultivate'15. Following the success of the 2014 event, the Task Force has again arranged for GWA members to gain special access to the trade show, educational sessions and other valuable networking events.
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Business Insider
Blendle, the Dutch startup that allows users to pay small micropayments for individual newspaper and magazine articles rather than having to sign up to digital subscriptions, has just signed up all the major German national newspapers to its service. Not just some of them — all of them. Eighteen dailies and 15 weeklies. The app now has an almost complete lock on national news in Germany.
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Fox News
There may be an overlap between the genetic components of creativity and those of some psychiatric disorders, according to a new study.
In the study, researchers looked at genetic material from more than 86,000 people in Iceland and identified genetic variants that were linked with an increased risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The investigators then looked for these variants in a group of more than 1,000 people.
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The Atlantic
Soon, reporters at two of the country's leading newspapers will have access to the most basic type of digital analytics: They will be able to see web-traffic data for their own stories. That is, they will at least know how many people clicked on them, where they came from, and how long they lingered. On Thursday, The Washington Post — in a concession to its reporters' union — told journalists they would soon have access to this data, which they had long demanded.
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The Idea Logical Company
Gareth Cuddy is one of the most practical service providers in the industry. His Vearsa e-book distribution company is providing global services to publishers large and small and he is a pioneer in reading and sales analytics. He recently wrote a piece that concludes "whatever emerges from this next phase will surely be a complete departure from what we understand today as an industry" with timetables around it wondering whether 2016 will be too late to respond and whether we'll have an unrecognizable industry in 2020.
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The New Yorker
An editor I know once told me that on a weekday afternoon, during a period when he was freelancing, he looked out from the rear window of his Brooklyn apartment and saw a burglary in progress, a la the Hitchcock film. He called the police. When two detectives arrived to take a statement, one of them asked, "What were you doing staring out your back window in the middle of the day?"
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Publishers Weekly
Trade sales tumbled in February, according to statistics released by the Association of American Publishers. Sales of adult books dropped 7.2 percent in February compared to February 2014, while sales in the children/young adult category fell 32.1 percent.
Within adult trade, sales of hardcovers fell 23.6 percent, mass market paperback sales dropped 31.2 percent, and e-book sales declined 8.7 percent.
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