The company's e-books — which include 6 million titles, from best-sellers to children's books — can be read on Kobo devices or on a new co-branded Walmart-Kobo app. According to Hildick-Smith's analysis, Kobo accounted for fewer than 1 percent of e-book purchases last fall, while purchases from
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The comic book superhero boom was well under way, and comic book publishers were fighting each other to get to the next great superhero idea. The top creators in the industry were suddenly very hot commodities, as everyone wanted to get a piece of the next great idea that, say, Will Eisner came up
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In a powerful address, which he titled “In the Time of the Wolf and Fox I Dream of Books” (the “wolf” being conservative whites and the “fox” liberals), he elicited many tears and a standing ovation. Díaz criticized the book industry for being a business in which predominantly white gatekeepers publish
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Sub-nanometer materials have received wide attention due to their unique properties in recent years. Most studies focus on the preparation and properties investigation of the inorganic sub-nanometer materials, while there are few reports on organic especially polymeric sub-nanometer materials such
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Alabama-based publishing company CNHI announced Friday that it is restructuring its leadership. CNHI said in a statement that it is moving to a regional editor system for its more than 100 community newspapers. The company said it has been working on the regional structure for six months. Sunbury
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The death of Sean O'Boyle in a Dublin hospital after a long illness ends an era in Irish publishing. He was founder of Columba Press, which specialised in religious books. Columba Press's motto “thinking books for a thinking church” expressed its mission. Columba Press provided a platform for writers
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