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In the run-up to the London Book Fair, Monday’s Publishing for Digital Minds conference at Olympia London is the first of the year’s trade-show-opening publishing conferences.

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As Vancouver-based publishing start-up BitLit amasses tens of thousands of “shelfies” from readers, it’s starting to draw early profiles of what’s on those bookshelves — so publishers can offer ebooks to bundle with fans’ print copies.