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In 2012, Poland's publishing market was worth some PLN 2.67 billion (US$805 million), a decrease of 1.5% from a year earlier, according to a market report released by publishing industry research firm Biblioteka Analiz.

In their report, analysts Łukasz Gołębiewski and Paweł Waszczyk said that, "the decrease in sales was not as severe as [in 2011], when aggregate revenues shrank by 8% from PLN 2.91 billion to PLN 2.74 billion."

No one took ownership of Google Reader internally because it wasn’t a top priority for Larry Page and his inner circle of lieutenants. And if you aren’t working on something that the boss cares about, then what’s the point?

As I survey the responses to and discussions of the recent decision in the Apple e-book antitrust trial, I’m disheartened by how many people seem to be buying into the publishers’ and Apple’s narrative of Amazon as the evil predatory-pricing monopolist. You see it in comments and articles here and there, that take for granted Amazon has been selling all its e-books at a loss, not just a small handful.

Even Adam Engst of TidBITS has been taken in:
Initially the U.S. Department of Justice filed this lawsuit against

One week after the demise of Google Reader, Fast Co.Labs’ Chris Dannen and John Paul Titlow interview the guys at Digg about their attempt at an RSS replacement.

Their plans for the future of Digg Reader include paid premium features, improved search, and a social network of power users. Along the way, they’re also learning a lot more about how people want to get their news:

  There were two categories of insights. 

Watching C-Span’s Book TV the weekend of July 5, I picked up their May 30 interview with Scott Turow, President of the Author’s Guild. While he was pitching his forthcoming book, Identical, Peter Slen led him to revisit his NY Times OP Ed piece, “The Slow Death of the American Author.” Peter Slen, by the way, in the tradition of C-Span’s Brian Lamb, has got to be one of the smartest and most resourceful TV interviewers in the book world.

Apple’s e-book lawsuit tends to get the lion’s share of attention, and it is easy to forget that Google has been entangled in its own years-long suit involving the publishing industry.

A federal appeals court Monday said that a suit brought by authors trying to stop Google from electronically scanning millions of books shouldn’t have been approved as a class action, Chad Bray writes.

    The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling Monday that it was “premature” to certify a class…

When the subject of e­books versus print — EVP, if you will — is discussed, one sees passionate loyalty on both sides. This is good news for the art, science and business of publishing. Such passion shows that this long established format of encoding and exchanging knowledge has captured the hearts of millions who view books as essential to their lives. What it also does, unfortunately, is cloud the real issues. Partisan loyalty to old or new book formats can blind us to what makes a book valuable in the first place.

Slicebooks today announces that it has secured funding from Ingram. See Publishing Wire below for details, and read our interview with  Slicebooks co-founder Jill Tomich here.

In most publishing houses, marketing and publicity are separate departments. And they should be. Even though each is tasked with book promotion, their methods and responsibilities are actually quite different: Publicity reaches the consumer through the media, and marketing reaches the consumer directly. But just because they're different, it doesn't mean the two departments can't — or shouldn't — work closely together. In fact, in this ever-changing marketplace, they need to work together like never before.

Tokyo, Japan -- June 28, 2013 -- Aquafadas, developer of digital publishing solutions, will participate in the 2013 Tokyo International Book Fair, held from July 3-6 in Tokyo, Japan. Aquafadas experts will showcase the latest digital publishing technology as well as participate in special customer presentations on real world examples of Aquafadas Digital Publishing workflows. “Aquafadas customers push the limits of our technology to produce super enriched digital publications. We’ve been working extensively with our Japanese business partner MSI to ensure Aquafadas Digital Publishing capabilities exceed market expectations and deliver on the imagination of the highly creative, tech-savvy Japanese publishing industry,” comments Claudia Zimmer, CEO of Aquafadas.