BioOne Announces 2013 Collections

August 28, 2012

BioOne (www.bioone.org) is proud to welcome five new titles and their respective not-for-profit publishers to the 2013 BioOne Collections: Marine Resource Economics, published by the Marine Resource Foundation; Cryptogamie, Algologie, Cryptogamie, Bryologie, andCryptogamie, Mycologie, three journals from France’s Association des Amis des Cryptogames; and Applications in Plant Sciences, a new, open access, online only publication from the Botanical Society of America.

“We chose BioOne because its mission and priorities align closely with those of the Botanical Society of America,” remarked Theresa Culley, Applications in Plant Sciences’ inaugural Editor-in-Chief. Regarding BioOne and the BSA’s new partnership, Culley observed that “both organizations are not-for-profits that are dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge and scholarly research. We view BioOne as a strategic part of our overall plan to create and launch a highly effective journal in which protocols and techniques in the plant sciences can be shared with other researchers throughout the world.”

In 2013 BioOne will be home to 176 total publications, 127 (72%) of which are ISI-ranked. Furthermore, 60 (34%) of BioOne’s titles have their current content available online exclusively through BioOne, and 38 (22%) are titles based outside of the US. In addition to its two subscribed collections, BioOne is now home to thirteen open access publications, freely available to all users.

We are delighted to add these five publications to BioOne, enhancing the aggregation’s value and reputation as a cost-effective, critical resource for quality research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. For subscription or trial information, please visit the BioOne website or contact your local BioOne agent.

New Title Information
The following titles will make their BioOne debut on January 2, 2013. Title lists in a variety of formats are available to download on the BioOne website.

Applications in Plant Sciences, published by the Botanical Society of America (BioOne Open Access)
Cryptogamie, Algologie, published by the Association des Amis des Cryptogames (BioOne.2 and BioOne Complete)
Cryptogamie, Bryologie, published by the Association des Amis des Cryptogames (BioOne.2 and BioOne Complete)
Cryptogamie, Mycologie, published by the Association des Amis des Cryptogames (BioOne.2 and BioOne Complete)
Marine Resource Economics, published by the Marine Resource Foundation, Inc. (BioOne.1 and BioOne Complete)

OCLC Researcher appointed to NISO Content and Collection Management Committee

August 28, 2012

OCLC Research Consulting Project Manager Eric Childress has accepted an invitation to join the NISO Content and Collection Management Committee. NISO (National Information Standards Organization) identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards related to managing information in the digital environment. The committee is one of three main leadership groups that help oversee existing and new standards work for NISO.

Each Topic Committee works with the community it serves to develop and maintain the plans necessary to sustain an active standards program for its area. As part of this work, they review and approve new work items, provide oversight to working groups, review and approve final publications, provide reviews of standards that are due for their five-year reaffirmation and provide recommendations on these, and more.

The Content and Collections Management Topic Committee focuses on issues regarding developing, describing, providing access to, and maintaining content items and collections. Current working groups under its oversight include Digital Bookmarking and Annotation Sharing, Standardized Markup for Journal Articles, the joint NISO/NFAIS Working Group on Supplemental Journal Materials and other maintenance agencies concerned with Dublin Core and the “classic Z39” family of NISO standards.

The committee meets monthly via teleconference and, when possible, annually in person. Committee terms are for three years.

American Medical Student Association Partners with LWW to Provide Medical Content to Members

August 28, 2012

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) , part of Wolters Kluwer Health, is now the exclusive medical content provider for the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation’s largest independent medical student organization.

As physicians-in-training from around the world join AMSA, they will receive a new member benefit of one or more of LWW’s well-known medical titles. Products vary based on the member’s geographic location and year in medical school and include:

· Rohen’s Photographic Anatomy Flash Cards
· Rubin’s Pathology Flash Cards
· Medicine Recall
· 5 Minute Clinical Consult (5MinuteConsult.com)
· Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy (AclandAnatomy.com)

As a leading publisher of medical, nursing and health professions content, LWW produces high quality, student-tested, and faculty-endorsed resources for students and practitioners in medical and related fields. LWW’s text and review products, eBooks and mobile apps, and online solutions support students, educators, and institutions throughout the medical curriculum and in residency and practice.

“We share AMSA’s mission and focus on medical training and global health. It is so exciting to be partnering with AMSA both to improve the lives of medical students, and to harness their vision and energy to drive innovation and provide public service,” says Susan Driscoll, CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health’s Professional and Education Group. “We look forward to working closely with AMSA’s Education and Research Fellow and Health Equity Fellow to create new opportunities for AMSA members and for medical students across the globe.”

As an additional benefit of the AMSA partnership with LWW, AMSA members will receive a 30 percent discount and free shipping on products available via LWW.com. LWW and AMSA will also work together to deliver member-only engagement opportunities, such as on-campus events and CORE leadership forums, special competitions, and a dedicated AMSA-LWW student reviewer program.

“The reviewer program makes it possible for students to directly influence the next generation of resources for medical education,” says Michael Tully, Publisher for Medical Education at LWW. “It’s exciting to see where this takes us from a publishing standpoint, and it is a great opportunity for tomorrow’s practitioners to have a voice in education tools.”

“Through our partnership with LWW, AMSA is able to provide members with extensive educational resources and trusted content,” says Elizabeth Wiley, MD, JD, MPH, AMSA national president. “AMSA has always provided a variety of opportunities to help medical students succeed and to advocate for themselves and others. Our collaboration with LWW is a natural extension of that endeavor.”

Mendeley handles 100 million calls for Open Science, per month

August 23, 2012

Imagine the rich ecosystem of third-party Facebook and Twitter apps, now emerging in the domain of science. More than 240 applications for research collaboration, measurement, visualization, semantic markup, and discovery – all of which have been developed in the past year – receive a constant flow of data from Mendeley. Today, Mendeley announced that the number of queries to its database (termed “API calls”) from those external applications had surpassed 100 million per month.

Akin to a “Wikipedia for academic data”, the information fueling this ecosystem has been crowdsourced by the scientific community itself. Using Mendeley’s suite of document management and collaboration tools, in just three years its global community of 1.9 million researchers has created a shared database containing 65 million unique documents and covering – according to recent studies – 97.2% to 99.5% of all research articles published. Commercial databases by Thomson Reuters and Elseviers contain 49 million and 47 million unique documents respectively, but access to their databases is licensed to universities for tens of thousands of dollars per year.

In contrast, Mendeley’s database is freely accessible under a Creative Commons license, and it is the only one that allows third-party developers to build their own tools with the research data anywhere on the web, on mobile devices, or on the desktop. Moreover, because Mendeley’s data is crowdsourced, it has a unique social layer: Each document comes with anonymized real-time information about the academic status, field of research, current interests, location of, and keywords generated by its readers. Mendeley’s API also adds information about related research documents and public groups on Mendeley that the document is being discussed in.

The most popular apps built on Mendeley’s platform fulfill academia’s need for faster and more granular metrics of scientific impact: ReaderMeter.org and Total-Impact.orgdisplay a researcher’s or a labs’ real-time impact on the academic community, while Mendeley itself recently announced the first sales of its real-time research impact dashboard to academic institutions around the globe. Hojoki pulls updates from Mendeley and other productivity tools like Evernote and Basecamp into a common newsfeed. Kleenk allows users to create free-form semantic links between documents in their Mendeley library and share them publicly. OpenSNP, winner of Mendeley’s $10,001 Binary Battle prize, makes the connection between raw genetic data and published research.

Bastian Greshake, co-founder of openSNP, explained: “We started openSNP to crowdsource the discovery of genotype-phenotype associations. In less than a year, our users have uploaded over 200 genetic testing results and more than 3400 phenotypic annotations for over 100 different genetically influenced traits, which is a great success. Mendeley’s API enables our users to find the latest scientific literature – including thousands of Open Access articles – relevant to their own genetic testing results.”

Dario Taraborelli, Senior Research Analyst at the Wikimedia Foundation and creator of ReaderMeter.org, said: “By sharing a large corpus of open-licensed data, Mendeley is laying the foundation for a whole new science of the making and spreading of scientific knowledge. This offers coders and researchers alike an unprecedented opportunity to map and measure the real-time impact of scientific research. Mendeley’s API is a mountain of data just waiting to be mined.” Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar, co-founders of Total-Impact.org, added: “Using Mendeley’s data, we can show how papers are making a difference long before they show up in the citation record, as well as which papers are making a difference to student readers, or readers in developing countries. Of course, this wouldn’t be possible without Mendeley’s commitment to releasing this data openly, under the CC-BY license. A lot of us in the Open Science community are convinced that the we’re on the way to a system built on this kind of openness. In the future, researchers will interact with the literature via a web of interlocking, third-party applications for sorting, filtering, and conversing. By opening its valuable data to developers, Mendeley is helping us get there, today.”

Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media and also a Mendeley Binary Battle judge, added: “This milestone shows how the future of science is being built, app by app, data source by data source. Open data is the biggest science story of the 21st century.”

Dr. Victor Henning, CEO & Co-Founder of Mendeley, said: “Our vision was always to make science more open. The Mendeley API liberates data that has been locked behind paywalls for decades – enabling app developers to reinvent academic workflows, research data discovery, even scientific publishing. Max Planck said: Science progresses funeral by funeral. I think we’ve found a better method.”

Mendeley API graphs and app screenshots:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mendeley/sets/72157631195319638/

Elsevier / Gold Standard Announces New Drug Class Overviews for Clinical Pharmacology

August 23, 2012

Leading drug information provider Elsevier / Gold Standard announced today its new Drug Class Overviews, making Clinical Pharmacology more valuable at the point of care.

Clinical Pharmacology Drug Class Overviews are now even more powerful for evaluating formulary decisions and therapeutic drug substitutions. Elsevier / Gold Standard has improved the speed and usability of the content through bulleted summaries and tables, highlighting a variety of critical areas in drug-interaction information.

“The new Drug Class Overviews represent a significant evolution in our content development that was stimulated and driven by input from our clients,” said Elsevier / Gold Standard President Marianne Messer. “This advancement also represents the way in which our users wish to utilize our vast amount of drug information that is updated in real-time.”

The new Drug Class Overviews includes:

A summary in simple bullet format
Pharmacology/Mechanism of Action with key pharmacology and pharmacokinetics and tables to highlight differences
Therapeutic Use, highlighting place in therapy, alternatives within a class, and key clinical differences with labeled, off-label, and not recommended indications
Comparative Efficacy, highlighting randomized control trials for one or more indications
Adverse Reactions/Toxicities summarizes serious adverse events and toxicities
Drug Interactions, helping clinicians determine which drugs to use
Safety Issues, highlights all contraindications and indicates BBW’s, REMS, or MedGuides.

“Clinical Pharmacology has been named by independent research studies as the most complete and dependable drug reference solution on the market today. It is trusted by thousands of hospitals, 35,000 retail pharmacies, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), pharmaceutical manufacturers, and academic institutions,” Messer said. “We are pleased to continue developing our solutions and meeting the needs of our users.”

For more information about Clinical Pharmacology and the new Drug Class Overviews, please visit www.goldstandard.com.

SAGE to Publish Australian Journal of Education and Australian Journal of Career Development from April 2013

August 23, 2012

SAGE and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) today announced a new agreement to publish its two journals, The Australian Journal of Education and The Australian Journal of Career Development, from April 2013.

The Australian Journal of Education is Australia’s leading educational research journal, publishing the highest quality content for a global audience, informing educational researchers, educators, administrators and policymakers about contemporary concerns in education. Its sister journal The Australian Journal of Career Development focuses on theory, practice and policy relating to career development. Both peer-reviewed and published three times a year, the journals seek to create and promote research-based knowledge, products and services that can be used to improve learning across the education sector.

“We are delighted to have been selected by ACER to publish their two prestigious journals,” said Karen Phillips, Editorial Director, SAGE. “SAGE has a strong program of journals representing leading international scholars in the education discipline. At our heart is engaged scholarship, academic excellence and the intrinsic value of education. SAGE is committed to disseminating key academic research and our continued long-term partnerships with the education community ensure this. We see both journals as a key forum for developing understandings about education training and education in relation to other fields. We look forward to developing both as part of our education portfolio.”

“ACER is excited about the benefits that our new relationship with SAGE will bring,” commented Geoff Masters, Chief Executive Officer. “When choosing a new publisher, it is important to find one who is aligned, understands and is committed to your core values. SAGE has a strong portfolio of international education journals. Committed to the dissemination of research to an international audience, SAGE is aligned with our values of sustaining and developing the unique focus of our research and to extending accessibility to a larger international audience. We value SAGE’s dedication to publishing high quality research and the services they offer their authors and editors. It is a partnership we are excited to see develop into a longstanding future together.”

The first SAGE issues will publish in April 2013. The new website will be http://www.acer.sagepub.com

Prestigious Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene journals join Oxford University Press

August 23, 2012

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s two prestigious journals will join the Oxford University Press (OUP) collection in a new partnership announced between the organizations.

The journals, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and International Health, seek to promote and advance the study, control, and prevention of diseases in humans and other animals in the tropics and sub-tropics. The Society plays a leading role in increasing awareness of tropical medicine and international health issues throughout the world.

Gerri McHugh, CEO of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, said: “We are delighted to announce this new partnership with OUP which comes at a critical and hugely exciting time in our growth; we look forward to working with OUP to strategically develop our journals to their fullest potential in terms of their relevance, scope, reach and impact.”

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is a well-established journal, founded in 1907, and is currently ranked sixth in impact factor for the Tropical Medicine category. It is a monthly journal which focuses on clinical tropical medicine and public health research, and presents the results of research that is broadly intelligible to readers from a range of disciplines.

The younger of the Society’s journals, International Health, concentrates on health care delivery and analysis in the fields of global medicine and international health. It is committed to advancing health for all people around the world and is an indispensable resource for all those with an interest in international health issues.

These titles offer a comprehensive range of multidisciplinary research and review papers, covering topics ranging from public health and infectious diseases, to health economics and healthcare systems.

Michael Brown, Editorial Director at Oxford University Press said: “We are delighted to be partnering with the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for the publication of their two journals. The society plays a leading role in increasing awareness throughout the world of tropical medicine and international health issues. We are looking forward to working with the Society in developing the profile of the journals, with the aim of Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene becoming the leader in the field and further growing International Health into a well-known and respected journal in all global regions.”

For more information about the titles, including subscriptions, article submission guidelines, and how to register for free content alerting services, please visit the relevant journal website:

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/trstmh/

International Health: www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/inthealth/

Gartner Says Cloud, Mobility and Open Source Will Drive Application Development Market to Exceed $9 Billion in 2012

August 22, 2012

The worldwide application development (AD) software market is expected to reach more than $9 billion in 2012, an increase of 1.8 percent over 2011, according to Gartner. In Australia, spending on application development software is expected to reach A$153.4 million in 2012, up 5 percent over 2011. Growth will be driven by evolving software delivery models, new development methodologies, emerging mobile application development and open source software.

“Application modernization and increasing agility will continue to be a solid driver for AD spending, apart from other emerging dynamics of cloud, mobility and social computing,” said Asheesh Raina, principal research analyst at Gartner. “These emerging trends are directing AD demand towards newer architectures, programming languages, business model and user skills.”

According to a new Gartner report, ‘Market Trends: Application Development Software, Worldwide, 2012-2016’, cloud is changing the way applications are designed, tested and deployed, resulting in a significant shift in AD priorities. Cost is a major driver, but also agility, flexibility and speed to deploy new applications. 90 percent of large, mainstream enterprises and government agencies will use some aspect of cloud computing by 2015.

“The trend is compelling enough to force traditional AD vendors to ‘cloud-enable’ their existing offerings and position them as a service to be delivered through the cloud,” said Mr. Raina. “AD for cloud demands rapid deployment, a high focus on user experience and access to highly elastic resources for software testing, while requiring comparatively less underlying infrastructure for developing applications.”

Gartner also predicts that mobile AD projects targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4:1 by 2015. Emerging mobile applications, systems and devices are transforming the AD space rapidly, and are one of the top three CIO priorities at the enterprise level. Gartner research found that CIOs expect more than 20 percent of their employees to use tablets instead of laptops by 2013, hastening the process of change as AD tools and applications evolve to address the requirements of these new devices.

Also driving the AD shift, Gartner expects open source software to continue to broaden its presence and create pressure on market leaders during the next three to five years, especially as open source becomes a key element of the software quality landscape beyond the developer level. It predicts that at least 70 percent of new enterprise Java applications will be deployed on an open source Java application server by the end of 2017.

“Open source software tools will continue to erode revenue for some AD categories in design, testing and Web development,” said Mr. Raina. “This is being driven primarily by the success of Eclipse and NetBeans, as well as by overall revitalization of the market by new small software providers looking for technical and market disruptive approaches for offering products. Limited budgets and economic conditions compelling enough to focus on cost reduction, also fuel the use of open-source software in various development projects.”

Additional analysis is available in the Gartner report: ‘Market Trends: Application Development Software, Worldwide, 2012-2016’, which is available on Gartner’s website at: http://www.gartner.com/resId=2098416

Amazon Web Services launches low cost, secure archive storage solution

August 22, 2012

Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Amazon Glacier – a secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage solution designed for data archiving and backup. Amazon Glacier is designed for data that is infrequently accessed, yet still important to retain for future reference. Examples include digital media archives, financial and healthcare records, raw genomic sequence data, long-term database backups, and data that must be retained for regulatory compliance. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably and durably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01/GB/month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions. To learn more about Amazon Glacier, visit http://aws.amazon.com/glacier.

Companies typically over-pay for data archiving. First, they’re forced to make an expensive upfront payment for their archiving solution (which does not include the ongoing cost for operational expenses such as power, facilities, staffing, and maintenance). Second, since companies have to guess what their capacity requirements will be, they understandably over-provision to make sure they have enough capacity for data redundancy and unexpected growth. This set of circumstances results in under-utilized capacity and wasted money. With Amazon Glacier, there are no upfront capital commitments, all ongoing operational expenses are included, and businesses can elastically and quickly scale their usage up or down when needed.

Complete Genomics provides human genome sequencing and analysis as a service to academic and biopharmaceutical researchers. “Every day our genome sequencers produce terabytes of data,” said Keith Raffel, Complete’s Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. “As our company moves into the clinical space, we face a legal requirement to archive patient data for years that would drastically raise the cost of storage. Thanks to Amazon Glacier’s secure and scalable solution, we will be able to provide cost-effective, long-term storage and thereby eliminate a barrier to providing whole genome sequencing for medical treatment of cancer and other genetic diseases.”

Amazon Glacier allows customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling archival storage to AWS, removing the need for hardware provisioning, data replication across multiple facilities, or hardware failure detection and repair. Designed to deliver average annual durability of 99.999999999% for each item stored, the service automatically replicates all data across multiple facilities and performs ongoing data integrity checks, using redundant data to perform automatic repairs if hardware failure or data corruption is discovered. Data uploaded to Amazon Glacier remains safely stored for as long as it is needed with no additional effort from customers.

New York Public Radio is home to leading public radio stations WNYC and WQXR, and is a major producer of original content for public radio in America. “An organization like ours thinks in centuries when it comes to content retention, and long term preservation of our Master Archives is a critical part our mission here at NYPR,” said Steve Shultis, CTO New York Public Radio. “Storing these core assets on traditional media such as local disk and off-site tape exposes us to corruption and even outright-loss of data. We are excited to move our archives to Amazon Glacier, which will be a better long-term solution.”

“Today, most businesses rely on expensive, brittle, and inflexible tape for their archiving solution,” said Alyssa Henry, Vice President of AWS Storage Services. “This approach requires expensive upfront payments, is difficult to operate and maintain, and leads to wasted capacity and money. Amazon Glacier changes the game for companies requiring archiving and backup solutions because you pay nothing upfront, pay a very low price for storage, are able to scale up and down whenever needed, and AWS handles all of the operational heavy lifting required to do data retention well.”

Amazon Glacier is available in the US-East (N. Virginia), US-West (N. California), US-West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and EU-West (Ireland) Regions. For complete pricing details, visit http://aws.amazon.com/glacier.

EBSCO Publishing unveils updated version of EBSCOhost Mobile

August 22, 2012

EBSCO has released an updated version of EBSCOhost^® Mobile providing library patrons and researchers worldwide with optimal searching from the most popular smartphones and mobile devices. With ease of use and more functionality, the new EBSCOhost Mobile will provide users with an improved search experience for accessing EBSCOhostdatabases and EBSCO Discovery Service^™ (EDS) on the go.

EBSCOhost Mobile can now be accessed without any initial administrative profile set up or software download required. EBSCOhost Mobile’s new smart technology auto-detects when an EBSCOhost user is visiting from a mobile device. The platform automatically directs the user to the optimal search experience for their device, making login and access faster and more streamlined. In the case of iPads, users will be directed to the EBSCOhost full site, which has been optimized for iPad use.

In addition to a more modern mobile site and usability enhancements, new EBSCOhost Mobile allows libraries to customize the interface with their own brands, colors, and logos, and to benefit from patron analytics provided with enhanced, device-specific usage reporting. For EDS users, EBSCOhost Mobile provides guest access and real-time availability checking for items in the library catalog. Library patrons and researchers worldwide benefit from user interface translation into 28 languages, full access to facets and search options, the integration of folders, plus the addition of book jackets images and publication-type icons for a more visual experience. Users have the option of toggling between the mobile site and the full EBSCOhost site. Direct-to-device download support for e-books will be added to the EBSCOhost Mobile site in the coming months.

More information about EBSCOhost Mobile and the latest upgrades to mobile searching for EBSCOhost andEBSCO Discovery Service is available at::http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/mobile-access.

Maney Publishing to launch new journal – Speech, Language and Hearing

August 22, 2012

Starting in 2013 Maney will be collaborating with the Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing (APSSLH) to launch Speech, Language and Hearing. This is a significant development for both Maney and the Society.

Speech, Language and Hearing is the official journal of APSSLH and is provided to each member as part of their membership. The journal welcomes submissions from clinicians and researchers with expertise in the field of communication disorders, particularly those in the areas of linguistics, psychology, education, audiology, speech-language pathology, and medicine.

Frances Nan Mai Wang, PhD, President of the APSSLH, is delighted to be collaborating with Maney to establish the new title. “The launch of this journal represents a turning point for the Society, and henceforth members will receive all the benefits of a professionally produced journal.”

Speech, Language and Hearing will be published quarterly (March, June, September, and December) and is edited by Professor Michael Robb of the Department of Communication Disorders, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Professor Robb is looking forward to working with Maney. “Maney Publishing offers an online submission and refereeing system, online publication, a new professional format, and international promotion that will establish Speech, Language and Hearing as one of the premier journals in its field. Topics to be covered in 2013 include communication competency in high-functioning autism, auditory neurophysiology, phonological awareness, as well as a range of papers on both normal and disordered aspects of speech, language and hearing.”

“The publication of Speech, Language and Hearing, together with Cochlear Implants International andDeafness & Education International, confirms Maney as a publisher of choice for science and applied research in audiology, speech and language pathology,” says Mark Simon, Publishing Director at Maney Publishing. “In addition to the three journals which will be available to libraries as a discounted bundle, Maney will continue to publish related stroke and rehabilitation work in other journals which will be included in relevant virtual compilations. It is a privilege to work with the Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing whose biennial conference is an increasingly important event.”

For more information please visit the journal homepage at www.maney.co.uk/journals/slh

E-Book User Base Expands to 24.5% of Adult Population

August 22, 2012

Simba Information has published an addendum to its recently released Trade E-Book Publishing 2012 report. In addition to showing an updated list of e-book hardware trends, the data indicates that about 24.5% of U.S. adults consider themselves to be e-book users, up from about 17.2% the year before; the sudden rise may be due to consumers buying the runaway bestselling series 50 Shades of Gray.

“Even though the base of e-book users expanded over the past year there are still lingering questions as to what extent consumers are engaged with digital book content,” said Michael Norris, senior analyst of Simba Information’s Trade Books Group, in commenting on the findings. “We also found that over a quarter of e-book users haven’t purchased a single digital book in the past year, and that is about the same as we discovered last summer. Additionally, there remains a very large group of iPad owners who are not e-book users at all.”

The entire addendum, which is based on data collected from Simba’s nationally representative consumer survey conducted in July and August 2012, will be distributed, free of charge, to purchasers of Trade E-Book Publishing 2012. This report also provides an analysis of how much money e-book users spend on digital titles and a full psychographic analysis that profiles e-book user habits. Devices profiled in this edition, as well as in the addendum, include Barnes & Noble’s Nook line, smartphones (including the iPhone), Amazon’s Kindle devices, Apple’s iPad and more.

The report also tracks the demographics of book buyers by gender, age, household income, education level and more—and provides extra value by showing demographic details of all e-book users and singling out those who have received free e-books in the past 12 months. It can be found at: http://www.simbainformation.com/redirect.asp?progid=84048&productid=6885450