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Hachette Book Group Announces James Patterson App for iPhone and iPad
October 29, 2010

Hachette Book Group announced today the James Patterson App for iPhone and iPad. The free app, available now on iTunes, will allow anyone with an iPhone or an iPad to access the latest breaking news about the country’s #1 bestselling author and his books, plus exclusive fan previews, online purchasing, author interviews, and other exclusive content.

Fast Stats
September 1, 2010

50,000 Number of copies of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" crime series—which includes "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest"—being sold approximately each day in the United States. Source: The Canadian Press, July 12, 2010 129,864,880 The number of books in the world, as…

eBooks … By the Numbers
September 1, 2010

Year-to-date sales of U.S. trade e-books sold through wholesale channels show an increase of more than 204 percent over sales through June 2009.

The E-book 
Opportunity
September 1, 2010

Two-thousand ten may be remembered as the year of the iPad, but if the recent buzz around e-readers is any indication, a rising content-delivery-device tide truly does lift all boats.

College E-Textbook Market to Grow 50% in 2010, New Simba Report Finds
August 24, 2010

(Press Release) STAMFORD, CT, Marketwire—E-textbooks are finding their legs in the college market, growing at an estimated compound annual growth rate of nearly 49% through 2013, when they will account for more than 11% of textbook sales, according to the newly released "E-Textbooks in Higher Education" report from media industry forecast and analysis firm Simba Information.

Amazon, Apple probed for e-book price fixing
August 3, 2010

NEW YORK, CNNMoney.com—In the e-book price wars, Apple and Amazon might be enjoying an unfair advantage, Connecticut's Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday as he announced an investigation of their contracts with book publishers.

E-Readers - A Tale of Two Forecasts
August 1, 2010

Global research and advisory firm mediaIDEAS forecasted in a recent study that the U.S. market in 2010 for paid e-reader content will be approximately $460.6 million—consisting primarily of e-books sold to a user base of more than 8 million.