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Old 04-13-2011, 01:50 PM   #23
Shimarenda
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
Let me start off by punching holes in the issue at hand, did a lot of this as an undergraduate in my Science of Argument class. First , the source, the Jenkins Group, who is this company and what business is it of theirs to make statements like this? I have never heard their name associated with book publishing in any way so where would the company lay there hands on that kind of data? If it was the Book Publishing Industry Association, I would except them as an authoritative source or perhaps one of the major book publishers (its simple for a book publisher to look at sales data to surmize this sort of things).
Here is the website for the Jenkins Group: http://www.bookpublishing.com/

Not that this proves anything about the methodology or results of their study. Since they indicate an attempt to broaden their business in 2009, the study was possibly done to that end.

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