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Codex Group ‘tablets killing e-books’ report revisited

Last month, I covered Codex Group President Peter Hildick-Smith’s presentation at BookExpo America on the impact decreasing e-ink reader use is having on e-book purchasing. Now Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly has picked up the same report Hildick-Smith discussed, with a few different details and some of the charts from that report.

As I noted in the BEA report, Hildick-Smith believes that many…

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Laura Hazard Owen's analysis of a new survey from the Codex Group tracking book discovery, presented last week at Digital Book World. The big concern is what happens when those bricks-and-mortar shops dwindle. Of course, libraries have always been a place of (mostly uncredited and undocumented) discovery, but OPAC integration (enabled by 3M via collaborations with Polaris and Bibliocommons) could change that. So could a simple change of attitude on the behalf of librarians, publishers, journalists, and consumers.

I love what Stephanie Chase of the Seattle Public Library said on Twitter: 

@huiscebeatha isn't it good if people come to us 1st for GONE GIRL, say, even if we then help them buy it online or send them to the bkstore