The Sharing Economy Is Getting ‘Very Big, Very Fast,’ Says PwC Study (Re/Code)
Renting and borrowing will replace ownership in many industries, according to a dizzying array of new statistics from a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report.
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The Enduring Mystery of the Academic Book Market (The Scholarly Kitchen)
Nature’s greatest mystery is anything to do with books: who reads them, how many there are, how much of them we read, what they cost, where we buy them, who makes money on their sale.
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Nicholls tells Digital Minds: ‘Showrooming is like shoplifting’ (The Bookseller)
Showrooming is just a “genteel form of shoplifting” author David Nicholls told an audience at the London Book Fair Digital Minds Conference this morning (13th April).
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The State of America’s Libraries 2015 (American Libraries Magazine)
No longer just places for books, libraries of all types are viewed as community anchors, centers for academic life and research, and cherished spaces.
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Kindle Daily Deal: Eight Books in the Lei Crime Series (and others)
