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Factoid: 54% of ebooks have no territorial sales restrictions

Managing territorial sales restrictions is a complex, important business. Trade publishers in particular are very concerned that vendors like eBooks.com adhere strictly to the rules they set. Matthew Dunlop, who is currently leading a complete re-build of the eBooks.com website, took time out to optimise some aspects of our file ingestion system and emerged with these gems: Of the 1.4 million titles in our database, 54 per cent are allowed to be sold anywhere in the world. Of the remaining 46 per cent, there are only 11,495 permutations of territorial…

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Screen Fatigue and the Decline in Ebook Sales

Recent reports suggest that screen fatigue is behind a decline in ebook sales. The reasons are more to do with usability and market saturation. Last Thursday the Guardian published two articles about ebooks. The first, by Mark Sweney declared, incorrectly, ‘Screen fatigue’ sees UK ebook sales plunge 17%. Another piece in the same issue penned by Paula Cocozza carried this headline: How eBooks lost their shine: ‘Kindles now look clunky and unhip’. On the same day, The Telegraph ran a story by Charlotte Runcie sub-titled, helpfully, 10 Reasons Ebooks Suck. What’s happening here? These articles and the chatter they spawned among those who…

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