Sentences with phrase «traditional book sales»

In February, Barnes & Noble said quarterly sales of its Nook e-reader and digital catalog surged 38 percent from a year ago, while traditional book sales rose only 4 percent.

While the company's most recent earnings, posted on Tuesday, reported a 14 - percent drop in net income, revenue from both its eReaders and its digital offerings rose 38 percent, while traditional book sales rose a mere 4 percent in comparison.

Here in the States, the percentage of electronic book sales compared to traditional book sales continues to expand.

So while self publishing and e-only publishing numbers are by all accounts going up and up, there are still some places where traditional book sales are stronger.

With other competitors like Barnes & Noble's Nook, Sony's e-reader line up and Plastic Logic's Que reader reportedly set to debut next month, we may see the e-book may take a bigger chunk out of traditional book sales by this time next year.

Traditional book sales have dropped globally in the last half - decade.

There are lots of ways to take part — from a traditional Book Sale or Literary Lunch to a Mad Hatter's Sensory Tea Party or an Extreme Reading Challenge if you're feeling really adventurous!

They recently completed a three year study that monitored the sales of both ebooks and traditional book sales.

I am going to be trying for the traditional book sale again in the near future, but I really haven't a clue how it will work out.

This means that on any day in 2009, about 140 books were being published by these four (three) companies at the same time that traditional book sales were declining.