Sentences with phrase «german ebook market»

The German ebook market is on a rising trend and is popular with traditional publishers in particular as the country still has a fixed book price agreement which means ebook prices are generally considerably higher there than in the US and UK.

In the intro, I go into some pertinent publishing news: Kobo has become Tolino's tech partner, which makes it a much bigger player in the growing German ebook market; Amazon is opening a bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changes.

Next year's sales and the Börsenverein's annual press conference will show if this estimate of the German ebook market has been correct.

At the annual press conference on June 9th 2015, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association not only presented economic data and key statistics about the German book market in general, but also focused on trends and changes within the German ebook market.

The German eBook market, according to eBook.de, skyrocketed while they continually expanded their eBook catalog from 404,000 to 668,000.

The market research firm GfK has a new report out this morning with a new estimate of the German ebook market, and depending on how you look at it the report is either good news or bad news.

After every quarter of the year, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, in cooperation with GfK Entertainment, releases its Ebook Quarterly Report to shed a light on the state of the German ebook market.

They sell their own e-reader and, as the image below shows, these stores together make up a major share of the German ebook market (with 45 % market share in the third quarter of 2014, that's more than Amazon had with 39 %!).

It states that the German ebook market share has grown from 3.9 % in 2013 to 4.3 % in 2014.

Every three months, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, in cooperation with GfK Entertainment, releases a Ebook Quartly Report and sheds a light on the state of the German ebook market.

What is interesting about the German ebook market is that less people are buying them, but the ones who do, spend more money.

Kobo and Tolino are both vying for a piece of the lucrative German eBook market.

Tolino estimates sales across its network accounted for approximately 37 % of the German ebook market for the first quarter of 2015 with other major players in the market being Amazon and iBooks.

Not exact matches

So for now, I'm testing one of the largest non-English eBook markets (German) and seeing how this works.

The ebook market in India is primed for an explosion and the German market is only a few years behind the U.S. in terms of size and growth.

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15:30 — Ebook readers first hit the German market at the end of 2009.

(www dot tolino dot de) 34 % of the ebook market in Germany (and German - speaking markets), also in Poland, Netherlands, Italy.

In June 2016, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association presented new numbers for the growth of the book and ebook market in Germany in 2015 and the previous years.

This week, I'll just take a brief look at some numbers from an article by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association about the market share of ebooks in the current German book market.

To compare this with the ebook market share in Germany: In 2014 this was estimated to be 4.5 % by the German Publishers and Book Sellers Association.

According to Going Global: How to sell your ebook in the German market by Birgit Kluger, Amazon Kindle has ~ 41 % of the market share, followed by Thalia ~ 14 %, Weltbild ~ 13 %, iTunes ~ 10 %.

Ebook sales in Germany have doubled this year but still only account for two percent of the overall book market, compared to 20 percent in the US, Gottfried Honnefelder, president of the German Booksellers» and Publishers» Association, told reporters here.

Second, I introduce you hands - on to all the processes that you need to follow to actually get your books into German ebook stores and to market your books here.

Txtr's Android app — the most popular eReading app in German language in Europe on Android Market — already offered a comprehensive set of standard features to shop, manage and read eBooks.

eBook readers first hit the German market at the end of 2009, but most Germans read on tablets rather than e-readers.

Txtr is a German based company who is one of the largest ebook stores focusing on the local market.

As for print sales in German, the market is more or less stable, we don't see a massive line of growth or a dip... there is no particular movement, except publishers tell us there is some impact in the paperback market due to ebooks.

Germany has the Tolino, an ebook reader and associated stores that are run by a group of German publishers and they have a significant chunk of the market.

«We are excited to be able to deliver an end - to - end eReading experience to the German market and to be able to offer the largest German eBook selection to the German consumer,» continued Serbinis.

To get a clearer picture of the current ebook market in Germany, Publishing Perspectives spoke with Ronald Schild, CEO of Germany's MVB (MVB is an economic subsidiary of the Börsenverein, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association), about recent developments.

So Tolino was a perfect fit for us — a national ebook solution that had achieved great success in German - speaking markets that wanted to do more and be even better.

Txtr has been a company in the ebook game for a long time and has great success in their local German market.

Gfk now believes that ebook sales accounted for 2.4 % of the German book market in 2012.

Although German Kindle Store was launched in 2011, the overall eBook market in Germany seemed to go under the radar until TeleRead brought it back again to our attention.

The brief interview with # 1 bestselling author in German Kindle store - Victoria Veel - sheds some light how the eBook market in German operates.

The key finding, already being reported in last week's article on the German book market 2014 in general, was that German ebook sales have grown slightly in comparison to last year: ebooks are now responsible for 4.3 % share of sales being worth 24.8 million euros and amounting to a rise of 7.6 % compared to last year's 3.9 % share of sales and 21.5 million euros.

The new draft of the law recognizes the growing market share of ebooks (although that figure is still just 5.3 percent, according to the German Bookseller and Publishers Association) and the need to address this format legally.

With more than 30 percent of customers purchasing eBooks in two or more languages, the market continues to embrace Kobo's international catalogue including one of the largest and rapidly growing selections of German eBooks.

The Germans claim that together they represent approximately 40 % of the total ebook market in Germany, or «eye level» with Amazon and that the market is «wide open.»

Tolino Shine is an eBook reader for the European market distributed by the German Telecom, the parent company of T - Mobile.

Apart from the publicly available data about the lower end of eBook price points capturing reader's attention, the latest data analysis from the German website, die Self - Publisher - Bibel, suggests that between $ 0 and $ 2 is not necessarily the sweetest spot in terms of revenue in several markets that readers chase after.

We talk a lot about market fragmentation on our blog, and this new German ebook site is a fine example.

In a consistent German book market, ebook sales rise by volume, but lower prices are driving down revenue from digital products.

Polish firm Legimi is one of the surprising success stories among ebook subscription services which are thriving despite the looming shadow of the giant Kindle Unlimited and is planning an IPO to give it the financial backing to move into the German market.