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The Bookseller
E-book sales in the US declined by 6 percent in 2014 compared to the year before, statistics released by Nielsen show.
Information presented at BookExpo America and derived from PubTrack Digital, which collects e-book sales data from more than 30 of the largest publishers in the U.S., showed that in 2014 just under 223 million e-books were sold in America, down from almost 240 million units in 2013.
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Amazon
Amazon.com announced its fifth annual list of the Most Well-Read Cities in America — just in time for summer reading season. The ranking was determined by compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format from April 2014 to April 2015, on a per capita basis in cities with more than 500,000 residents.
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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
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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GWA
Come join Kathy Wood and Marnie Wright for an evening spent visiting gardens in Muskoka, Ontario. Join Marnie and Kathy for drinks and appetizers in Marnie's garden, followed by dinner in the garden at the home of Kathy and Peter Wood. Enjoy a chance to relax and reconnect with Region VII GWA members in beautiful Muskoka. Why not make a weekend of your visit and check out the many other local events happening this weekend?
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GWA
GWA Foundation is seeking a skilled photography member in the Detroit area for a special event on June 12. Interested parties should contact the Foundation at execdir@gardenwriters.org for details.
GWA
Powerful Plants is a new gardening brand for elementary age children looking for territory mangers to sell into garden centers, farm stands, gifts shops and food stores. Also at schools, fairs and food/garden events, where our products can be demonstrated. Powerful Plants is about nurturing a passion for gardening and healthy eating for the next generation through 36 heirloom vegetable varieties and an interactive storybook.
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The Conversation
In This Will Destroy That, also known as Book V, Chapter 2 of Notre Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo presents his famous argument that it was the invention of the printing press that destroyed the edifice of the gothic cathedral. Stories, hopes and dreams had once been inscribed in stone and statutory, wrote Hugo. But with the arrival of new printing technologies, literature replaced architecture.
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David Farland (blog)
Some authors never get "Writer's Block," and they don't believe that it exists. They'll blithely say, "Do doctors ever get 'Doctor's block,' or do plumbers ever get 'plumber's block'?" and they think that they've just scored a point.
If you had asked me 10 years ago, I would have told you much the same.
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The Guardian
The average amount of time spent reading newspapers fell more than 25 percent globally from 2010 to 2014 — but the popularity of newsprint has proved resilient in the U.K. with just a 3 percent decline over the same period.
The amount of time spent reading newspapers across the world averaged 16.3 minutes per reader a day last year, down 25.6 percent from the 21.9 minutes daily average in 2010.
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Publishers Weekly
In a minor setback for Apple, a three judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the company's bid to oust its court-appointed monitor, Michael Bromwich. In a brief opinion and order, Judge Dennis Jacobs, writing for the court, held that Judge Denise Cote did not abuse her discretion in appointing and retaining Bromwich, despite Apple's objections, and that the monitor's conduct was "appropriately constrained by the injunction and by other powerful restraints of law."
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The New York Times
Novelists do all kinds of things as they wait for their books to be published, from imagining unforeseen commercial success to imagining unforeseen commercial success. Just kidding — we also update our websites. But eventually we have to face the fact that we are finished with that book — finished, and it's not even in bookstores yet — and it is time to start something new.
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Digital Book World
As someone who has been creating e-books for more than a decade, I am often asked whether I think Amazon will someday let go of its proprietary Kindle format and switch to EPUB. My response has been the same since the question was first posed to me in 2009: I don't see any reason why they would want to.
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