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4. 99.5%
Source: MIT Technology Review

5. Information = data + context

7. “Computers are useless. They only give you answers.”
- Pablo Picasso (1964)

14. Source: Nielsen BookScan and PubTrack Digital

39. Source: Nielsen BookScan and PubTrack Digital

41. Source: authorearnings.com

59. Source: ufunk.net

64. Hardcover Paperback Ebook Audiobook
$40.73 $25.67 $16.74 $32.99
$20.09 $15.00 $10.41 $15.74
$32.89 $15.88 $10.99 $25.93
$16.64 $9.80 $7.39 $10.90

67. Prediction

68. 9780393254594

71. 9780316378215

74. “I’ve always been very careful never to predict
anything that has not already happened.”
- Marshall McLuhan

75. research@booknetcanada.ca
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