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Last week’s Nielsen webinar unveiled the results of the 2020 Nielsen Books & Consumers report, this year subtitled “The Importance of Metadata for Discoverability and Sales.” …

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You can find our Essential Short Guides available online now at Amazon, Kobo and Apple Books as well as our own online shop.
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Essential Short Guides Available Online NowRead More »

Thanks to our book submissions through A.C. Nielsen, our books are also listed at Waterstones online store, where the paperbacks are shown at the full retail price. …

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All of our current publications are available to read now on Apple Books in E-pub format for £2.99.

Apple Books is an e-book reading and store application by Apple Inc. for its iOS and macOS operating systems and devices. You’ll need an Apple device (iPhone, iPad, MacBook) and the Apple Books app installed. …

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As part of our expansion into ‘wide’ distribution, all our titles are now available in e-pub format via the Kobo book stores internationally.

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Now on Kobo in E-pub FormatRead More »

This week sees the soft launch of our first technical book – The VirtualBox Networking Primer: Connecting and Configuring Virtual Machines.

Available now in paperback and Kindle ebook format on Amazon.

The many shams, scams and Wikipedia scrapers employed by certain online ‘publishers’ are now in their tenth year. Consider the book blurb containing the following:

“Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.” …

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Factors influencing E-book purchases are revealed in Nielsen Books & Consumers: a monthly survey of around 3,000 book buyers aged 13-84 that are nationally representative of the UK population.

Although lockdown has started to ease and book shops are reopening, many readers have switched to digital formats. The latest survey results indicate the influences driving book selection for e-books and audio books. …

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Winning at Épée: Techniques for the Shorter Fencer is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions.