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In her book “Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World,” linguistics professor Naomi Baron surveyed more than 420 students from the US, Germany, and Japan from 2010 to 2013 about their preferences for reading on paper versus a screen. 92 percent of the students in the US and Japan said paper, as did 98 percent of the German students.
The European Union’s executive branch has launched an antitrust investigation into online retailer Amazon over its distribution of e-books
The Word on the Street is set to expand across the lawn of Queen’s Park on Sunday.
Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese lawyer and human rights activist who escaped the wrath of the Chinese Communist Party this spring, has signed a publishing deal to tell his story.
For the first time, revenue for adult e-books has outpaced that of adult hardcover.
A class action lawsuit has been filed in British Columbia that accuses Apple Inc. and others of fixing prices on e-books.
Are publishing companies feeling the effects of Kindle, IPOD and other electronic reading devices as technology expands?
