Traditional publishing isn't making as much from the sale of
e-books than it did last year.
Not exact matches
This is a positive figure but
does highlight a lower growth rate
than in 2013 and 2014, leading to the
e-book share of books rising only marginally
last year by 1 % to 27 % of the market from 26 % in 2014.
I had to buy an e-reader (NOOK)
last year when I had to
do book reviews and I found it was much cheaper to buy an
e-book than it was to buy the print.
There is little doubt that Kobo and Rakuten between them will
do more in the next 12 months to push the Japanese
e-book market into the mainstream
than the industry establishment has managed in the
last 10
years.