Not exact matches
In the $ 164 billion
U.S. lodging
market,
booking fees are now nearly split between
online travel agencies such as Expedia, with $ 39 billion, and hotels, with $ 38 billion, according to Phocuswright, a New York - based travel
market research company.
But the overall theme of the report was that Australian
book sellers and publishers would need to take steps to counteract the consumers»
online and foreign
market purchasing, a running theme in the
U.S., where the loss of Borders has been blamed almost entirely on the
online retail booksellers and consumers» switch to digital.
Barnes & Noble now represents more than 25 percent of all of the
U.S. market for e-
books, more than the company's share of physical
books, and it sells twice the number of e-
books as physical
books, at least
online.
Amazon, which declined to answer questions or discuss its relations with publishers for this story, dominates the
U.S. market for print
books sold
online and also leads the
market for electronic
books.
Amazon controls more than 40 percent of total
book sales in the
U.S., 75 percent of
online sales of physical
books, and 65 percent of the e-
book market.
Growing from zero just a few years ago,
U.S. mobile leisure / unmanaged business travel gross
bookings reached nearly US$ 2.6 billion in 2011, representing 2.4 % of the
U.S. online travel
market.
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