September 7, 2016 | The Hot Sheet

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2016 data for Americans’ use of e-readers on cell phones and tablets and even computers and laptops.

2016 user statistics for Facebook and a list of the top publishers in the US.

Small items of interest from September 7, 2016: traditional publishing, business know-how, Amazon.

The Hot Sheet was engaged to develop the programming for the first-ever Digital Book World author-facing conference, DBW Indie Author.

After coming under new ownership, Book Of the Month Club was relaunched in 2015 as a monthly hardcover subscription service.

A National Endowment for the Arts Annual Arts Basic Survey, which covers 2013 to 2015, includes a look at “literary reading.”

Pew’s report Book Reading 2016 shows a growing number of people are reading on smartphones and tablets, but print books remain popular.

Tapas has a partnership with Hachette to release several novels in serialized form—on track to receive 15 to 30 titles quarterly.

A review of the big-picture financials reported by four of the Big Five during the first half of 2016—compared to the prior year.