New Data About the Print, Ebook, and Children’s Book Marketplaces

January 21, 2015 by Gary Price

Last week at the Digital Book World conference in New York City, Jonathan Nowell, President of Nielsen Book (part of the The Nielsen Company gave two presentations that provided new and updated data about the print, ebook and children’s book marketplaces.
Slide decks from both of Nowell’s presentations are embedded below.

The Changing Mix of What Sells in Print – Jonathan Nowell, Nielsen Book from Publishers Launch Conferences

Jonathan Nowell A Look at the US Children's Book Market from Publishers Launch Conferences

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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