This (along with their name) should start to give you some good demographic
data about this reader.
Consider all the rich
data about reader interests and behaviour that exists online - think book bloggers, email list owners, retailers, and so forth.
Rather than earn revenue from subscriptions, the company would now try to make money by selling sales leads —
data about readers who had agreed to share their information — to companies and universities.
Another sticking point could be the extent to which Facebook shares
data about readers with publishers, and how easy it will be for publishers to bring readers to their websites.
Peter McCarthy of McCarthy Digital will kick off Publishers Launch BEA with a presentation about moving beyond our standard understanding of «industry data» to mining and analyzing the massive amounts of public
data about readers: who they are and where they are.
's pioneering technology enables publishers to have more direct communication with its book purchasers, as well as to receive
data about readers» preferences, helping them to better serve and be more responsive to their customers.
But
data about readers is more important than ever and so is the issue of discovery.
Not exact matches
For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling
readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information
about your reading habits and preferences,
data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.
The national media use
data which may have originated in Vancouver or Toronto and while this information may create interest in the
readers / viewers, it does not contribute to a reliable foundation on which to make a decision
about your real estate future in the Hamilton Burlington market.
Instead, the
reader will maintain his integrity if he learns he need not feel guilty if, after questioning the Bible for what it says and implies
about the universe, he concludes that our scientific
data are more reliable.
Observant
readers will have noticed a renewed assault upon the meteorological station
data that underpin some conclusions
about recent warming trends.
Their Juicebox Blog also delivers more insights to
readers, by providing posts
about using
data, visualizing
data, and gaining a better understanding of customers through
data analysis.
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Roland Fryer Answers
Reader Questions
About His Police Force Study New York Times, 7/12/16 «My sincere hope is that the type of analysis being done in our paper will lead other police departments and community groups to understand the types of
data we need to answer these important questions and work together to be more transparent and make that
data public.»
• Curiosity
about reader analytics and ability to use
data about audience trends to steer content.
Hattie presents material very well and will challenge the
reader to do deeper thought
about data.
Due to a lack of reliable
data about individual students» skills and progress, schools can miss golden opportunities to help struggling
readers succeed or inspire advanced learners to do even more.
Along the way, the guides are careful to walk the
reader through their explanations of Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) and a teacher's Mean Growth Percentile (MGP), impressing the
reader with discussions and charts of confidence ranges and the need to be transparent
about the
data.
Readers should not draw conclusions
about a carrier's overall safety condition simply based on the
data displayed in this system.
You have no or little hard
data about how
readers might respond to your writing.
To catch the
reader's consideration, you can make a testing case
about the theme or present some astonishing
data.
The analysis comes with a few caveats: (1) the Kindle is only one eBook provider and is not representative of digital reading; (2) it is unknown to what degree this
data is representative of reading on the Kindle in general; (3) the
data does not currently include 90 % of the
data; and (4) without a finer breakdown of the users» demographics, the
data can only tell us so much
about what the
readers are attempting to do through highlighting.
The ability to see
data about how well your links perform, including the stores that more of your
readers prefer.
If you're an author publishing on Amazon.com, Author Central is an essential tool to help you easily make changes to book
data and improve
readers» ability to learn more
about you.
Unlike other retailers, Mofibo also gives all the
data back to the publishers, allowing them to learn
about their
readers, the
readers» habits, their environments and much more, effectively providing the publisher with a wealth of business intelligence they have never previously received from a traditional retailer.
With all of the concern on the part of self - published authors
about not being readily included in bookstores and libraries, the
data shows that's simply not where
readers are finding content.
More importantly, the
data revealed crucial information
about exactly who is reading on their mobile devices, which should give publishers and advertisers the leg up in providing targeted content that speaks to
readers.
«There's been a lot of buzz
about print books resurgence and this year's
data tells us that
readers are enjoying all formats that are available to them, and that includes eBooks and audiobooks.
According to a recent
data report Good e-Reader ran,
readers overwhelmingly are quite negative
about ordering books in advance.
They discuss the analysis of reading
data, understanding core eBook
readers better, as well as some of Sinead's favorite things
about her role in the book industry.
A number like «10,000 Facebook fans» is the easiest way to quickly establish a
data point
about whether an blogger's work is resonating with
readers, but it doesn't tell the whole story.
(Example: Witches, Demons, Teen Series, YA Romance) These keywords will become part of what is called Metadata (the
data about your book), and will be used to help connect
readers with your book.
A lot of
data was presented to the attendees
about the low numbers of ebook sales in children's and young adult literature, although there was information that the popularity among digital editions for those
readers is on the rise in the past year.
Interestingly, this
data is being shared with publishers in order to help them make decisions
about the types of books
readers actually purchase and interact with.
The new version of the Digital Editions client was transmitting
data about the reading habits of users in a way that left
readers vulnerable to eavesdropping.
National Public Radio's Lynn Neary of All Things Considered interviewed me the other day for an editor's perspective on
Reader Analytics, and whether
data about reading behavior should have an impact on publishing decisions.
«They also provide publishers with the new holy grail of the digital consumption and that is customer metrics — real
data about their core subscribers or
readers.»
I don't have
data on English literacy, or the number of English
readers, though our friends at Flipkart tell me
about 80 % of their book sales are English language books.
And we're interested in #FutureChat this week in hearing from members of The FutureBook community
about what else is needed in the way of information, what better
data on production and sales might offer, not just to authors but also to publishers, their editors and acquisition teams, to marketers and publicity officers, none of whom can see clearly what
reader - consumers are up to «by candlelight.»
To that end, I'm always on the lookout for empirical
data that gives me insights
about reader preferences and buying habits.
Like IMDB does for TV and movies, acquiring Goodreads gives Amazon the ability to incorporate more
data about books and their
readers into its own web site and e-reading experience.
In the past, the company has shared information
about how its
readers discover and buy books and
about their digital reading habits, presenting the
data at conferences and in blog posts.
And today, Hull looks at the service's «layer upon layer of rich, contextual
data that reveals an incredible amount
about readers» behaviour» — and at sharing that
data with publishers, who «have the same aims» as subscriptions.
In a nutshell, metadata is the information (
data) you or your publisher needs to provide
about (meta) your book or ebook to help retailers sell it, librarians catalog it, and
readers discover it.
DRM is
about controlling * other * people's property (their
readers and the
data that they have purchased).
In the past hour, The Register has heard from
readers who have only just been informed
about the huge
data breach.
In other words, evidence or argumentation is
about reasoning, using facts, the true judgment, the scientific
data used to persuade the
reader in the truth of what the essay is
about.
-LSB-...] Hugh Howey's latest post asks why Amazon can not provide us with
data about how far a
reader has read a book, at what chapter they gave up, etc..
And that's the key point here: You're not receiving individual
data about Jane Doe, but
about all the
readers (who allow cookie sharing in their internet browsers) who come to your website.
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