The Global e Book Report 2017 is highlighting, and measuring the relevant international trends:
– Tracking main market developments and the diversity of relevant drivers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia;
– The segmentation of book markets in print and digital;
– European ebook markets in great and previously unavailable detail, based on in depth data provided by leading distributors;
– Ebooks in the context of the overall transformation in international publishing;
– Global players, and their impact on re-shaping the international business of books.
By 2017, ebooks are so much more than yet another format and edition of printed books. Instead, in a global perspective, with in depth data analysis allow a realistic and precise understanding of how consumer publishing has become a highly diverse and segmented business, with hugely different developments in the big English language countries, in continental Europe and in emerging economies.
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Table of Contents
About
Executive summary
The global digital
Books in the global digital market place
English language ebook markets
How today’s ebook got started
United States
United Kingdom
Contributed article: Bookwire’s Jens Klingelhöfer on 'A Great Battle for Customers’
Beyond the English language world
Ebooks in Europe
Germany
France
Contributed article Klopotek: Welcome to the Big Picture of handling your rights business
Spain
Italy
The Netherlands
Scandinavia: Sweden
Central and Eastern Europe
Contributed article Copyright Clearance Center: The Road to Digital Transformation
Emerging markets
More than one world
Brazil
China
Russia
Keydrivers and debates
The expansion of global and regional platforms: Amazon, Apple, Kobo and Tolino
Self-publishing
Outlook and perspectives
Yellow Pages
O autorze
Rüdiger Wischenbart is a publishing consultant based in Vienna, Austria, specializing in international and digital developments in the publishing and other cultural industries. He also researched and (co-) authored the Global Publishing Markets survey for the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry. He serves as a Director for international affairs to Book Expo America, and a Director of Publishers’ Forum, Berlin.
Carlo Carrenho is a publishing consultant, trade journalist, and Digital Future Enthusiast, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the founder of the Brazilian book online trade magazine Publish News, and its Englishlanguage sister, Publish News Brazil, and he is a council member at Digital Book World.
Miha Kovac started his career in 1985-86 as Editor-in-Chief of Mladina, the only opposition paper in that time in Yugoslavia. In the 1990s, he moved to book publishing and became Editor-in-Chief of Mladinska knjiga, the biggest Slovene book publishing house. In 2000, he started to teach publishing at the University of Ljubljana, and has written extensively on publishing and on Slovenian politics. He holds a Ph D in Library and Information Science. In 2010, he returned to book publishing as head of digital development at Mladinska knjiga.
Yanhong Kong is the editor in chief of the Chinese trade publishing news portal Bookdao.
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