December 2013 | Volume 38, Number 12
There isn’t a question that the consumption of books has changed over the years because of digital, but there are still plenty of reasons, both practical and emotional, why print ...
One of the few positive stories of 2013—that didn’t even require a spin—was the favorable results from Simba’s proprietary survey which showed the number of adults who bought ...
As I write this, Simba Information is preparing to move offices. For any subscriber, at any organization of any size, you know exactly what kind of headache this is causing.We’ve ...
For chain bookstores, the third calendar quarter has never been anything to write home about, but the two major bookstore chains in the U.S.—Barnes & Noble and ...
Weeks after BPR’s feature on reading habits among frequent flyers—and years after Simba has expressed the need to tie physical discovery more closely to the digital ...
While just about anyone worth writing about already has a Wikipedia entry, it is nice to know that crowdsourced information that may or may not be accurate isn’t enough to knock down ...
Historically, as autumn spills into winter, we see a drop in the number of new titles appearing on any combination of the lists which make up this analysis—New York Times, USA Today ...
At Simba we like data that is consistent, but when it comes to iPad owners, some of the data is extraordinarily consistent. Frustratingly consistent. In our own proprietary ...
Ten years ago, the picture of book retailing looked a lot different than how it does today. Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and Borders Group (known as the ‘Big Three’ chains) ...