As more and more bookstores have closed, Amazon is now believed to be the nation's largest bookseller, with an estimated 30 per
cent of a total book market that PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates hit $ 34.9 billion last year, and 60 per cent of an e-book market that PwC pegged at $ 7.9 billion.
E-Books accounted for 12 per
cent of the total book market in 2012, up from 8 per cent in 2011, and 5 per cent in 2010.
Not exact matches
There are a range
of resources available to promote the event and, as an added incentive, schools receive 20 per
cent of their fund - raising
total back in the form
of a voucher to spend at Scholastic
Book Clubs.
A
total of 73 per
cent of respondents
of the joint ATL and NUT survey said their school had cut spending on
books and equipment, while 46 per
cent reported cuts to ICT.
64.6 per
cent of total sales
of books and e-
books are generated in the province
of Ontario (English speaking), while 29.9 per
cent of sales occur in Québec (French speaking).
The largest shares
of total sales were reported in the nonfiction (43.5 per
cent), fiction (26.5 per
cent) and children's
books (19 per
cent) segments.
Popular metrics
of aggregate market valuation, such as Wilshire
Total Market Index to U.S. GDP, price to forward earnings ratio, price to
book value ratio, price to cash flow ratio, cyclically adjusted price to earnings ratio (CAPE), the ratio
of annual forward dividend to price (dividend yield), indicate the U.S. stock market is overvalued by between 10 per
cent and 60 per
cent.
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cents each in my
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total return
of 7.5 % when
booking eligible travel.
Australian companies frequently
book their business travel accommodation online: Australia is one
of the global leaders in this regard, with online hotel
bookings representing 76 per
cent of its
total market.
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According to PhoCusWright, Japan was the largest
total and online travel market in Asia Pacific in 2009, contributing gross
bookings amounting to US$ 75.5 billion, or 34 per
cent of the region's
total travel market.
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