I am insisting, however, that thoughtfully watching the
maturing ebook space isn't just great for creative inspiration.
The advantage of Rock Connect is that you can keep a track on what latest happening
in eBook space,» revealed Mr. Rishi Mohan Jha while introducing the company's latest initiative.
In an article on the Chinese
ebook space for Futurebook, Patrick Crowley sums it up: «What became clear to us very quickly is that the market in China is quite fragmented.
Bookstores can't survive when Amazon can coerce its author and publisher suppliers to offer Amazon better prices, or worse, as we see in the indie
ebook space with KDP Select, put a gun to the head of authors and force them to deny other retailers the ability to sell their books.
One such market was the image -
heavy ebook space, where books had to be converted into apps for consumption in various operating system - specific app stores rather than sold through e-reading sites like Amazon or B&N.
Their ebook sales are stronger then
other ebook spaces, but it is not enough to bring its chain of stores, supply pipelines, staff, and other facets of running a business the income they need.
Before looking at Coker's thoughts on the industry, it's important to refamiliarize with a company that has been quietly plugging along in the
retail ebook space all this time.
With the
digital ebook space becoming so popular, writers and readers alike are being drawn to the trend of serialization.
If there's an opportunity in the
used ebook space you can bet he'll be working on it to further reinforce Amazon's dominant position.
If we're to see similar consolidation in the
enhanced ebook space in the same timeframe, publishers are going to have to be firm that they will only (or at least primarily) produce standards - based multimedia books.
Amazon sold out of its first Kindle units in under six hours and continued to dominate the small but
growing ebook space throughout 2008.
«We're confident Que is going to remain on the most wanted list of mobile business professionals — and that there's still ample room in the nascent eReader market to compete, especially for those who are not solely focused on the
crowded eBook space,» she wrote.
In parallel, Microsoft appears to have placed a very intelligent (and relatively inexpensive) bet into not only the tablet and
ebook space with Barnes & Noble and Nook - one they have not previously been able to make - but the complete digital ecosystem necessary to play in today's consumer markets.
I sat down with Emma McKay, managing editor at Askmen and the force behind their foray into ebooks, to talk about what happens when an analytics - driven web publisher enters
the ebook space.
However, with their decision to venture into
the ebook space as well, NewsHunt will have to ward off competition from existing players of the likes of Flipkart, Amazon or Google.
Ebookezvous is a French distributor who has been involved in
the eBook space since 1999.
In this post I wanted to highlight a London, UK - based book publisher who are looking to the future, producing premium physical books, but also creating innovating in
the ebook space: Visual Editions launched in 2010, co-founded by Anna Gerber and Britt Iversen.
By far the stand out this year happened in
the eBooks space.
Amazon currently leads the charge in
the eBook space and sells the most e-readers globally.
In February 2014 Sony announced that they were exiting
the eBook space and Kobo would take over their book business.
Our primary motivation was stepping in for a company exiting
the eBook space and allowing customers to buy new titles.»
Because the largest retailers trading in
the ebook space don't report sales figures — most significantly Amazon — the publishing industry is left, as The Bookseller's Philip Jones puts it, trying to analyze its own digital market «by candlelight.»
I wish a Kindle DX to compete it, particularly since Sony has left
the eBook space (left to Kobo) and thus makes its 13 ″ PDF's future questionable.
With the release of myriad devices and formats, number of online vendors, and confusing search functionality, consumers often get lost in
the ebook space,» said David Nussbaum, Chairman & CEO, F+W Media, in a press release yesterday.
Despite its young age in the industry, Vook has already made impressive contributions to
the ebook space, working with mainstays such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company to power their digitization efforts.
MS is wasted opportunity in
the ebook space.
While
the ebook space is still rather small compared to both population size and device penetration, consumers within the country are quickly playing catch up to countries who were early adopters of the format.
There is ample potential in
the ebook space for BKS.
In evaluating the growth potential of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) in
the ebook space, we should clearly differentiate between selling devices (e-readers) to selling titles (ebooks).
The BKS brand is extremely strong in print books, and marginal in
the ebook space.
These two countries have the MOST competition when it comes to the digital reader and
ebook space.
This entire collusion case was brought to light in 2010 with the launch of the original iPad and to level the playing field so Apple could compete in
the eBook space.
Kno certainly boosted up its credibility with a very instrumental member of of
the ebook space and has a tremendous amount of industry experience.
If you've been in
the eBook space for a while now, maybe you can pick up a few tips to maximize your next launch.
It's certainly better than the alternative i.e. B&N leaving
the ebook space completely, or perhaps just giving up.
Designers need better and more stable tools to work in
the ebook space, it seems to me.
Speaking of booksellers, a frequent lament was the almost total lack of «pull» in
the ebook space from booksellers wanting to get involved.
In
the ebook space, no sign yet of the open source FBReaderfor Android.
Unlike our competitors in
the eBooks space such as Amazon and Apple, who focus on selling consumers «new» eBooks as... More
For some reason I'm amazed by the success of Barnes & Noble (and Kobo formerly of Indigo now independent) retailers when they move into
the ebook space.
Sony, who was once a player in
the ebook space, now seems to be iterating within its own world, devoid of competitors.
Apple's drive to compete with Amazon in
the eBooks space eventually led to a series of pricing agreements with publishers, a price - fixing lawsuit from the U.S. Dept. of Justice which it lost, and refunds to customers.
The institution is increasingly investing in
the ebook space, which is cool, because being future - proof ensures longevity and relevance.
But what's most interesting to us is non-traditional book publishers entering
the ebook space, because they have the flexibility to approach book publishing in whole new ways.