My own hunch is that if Amazon is able to completely take
over the ebook market, it will only pay 35 % at all price levels.
If it can be used as a ebook reader, a netbook, or run a web browser simultaneouly with the book page on the opposite screen, this could be a product that would take
over the ebook market.
Not exact matches
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By high pricing on
ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive hardcover
over to the
ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as well.
Interestingly, Flipkart holds a sway
over 40 to 45 percent of the printed books
market, something that could come under strain once
ebook sales pick up.
In the first half of 2013, the Dutch
eBook market had three million titles digitized and at the midpoint of 2014 there are
over five million.
One of the polarizing issues in the U.S.
ebook market right now is the conflict
over public library access to
ebook titles for lending, but we may be able to take a lesson from Libranda's new partnership with OverDrive to afford access to new and bestselling
ebook titles to library patrons in Spain.
Meanwhile
over in Asia, Japan led the
eBook markets with 15 % of the country's total consumer book revenues; China and India, meanwhile, lagged far behind at 3 %.
More interactivity will allow
eBooks to gain even further
market share
over print books.
Since the introducing of the Kindle, the
eBook market has grown leaps and bounds, with many in the industry saying that it would take
over the print
market.
In fact, it's
over four times as big as the
market for
ebooks.
After all, Kindle is
over 90 % of the
eBook market.
Last week, Amazon stopped selling
ebooks by the Independent Publishers Group because the IPG wouldn't agree to their terms — Amazon
ebook terms are notoriously one - sided, which is natural for a company with
market share easily
over 60 %.
In a similar way, Amazon jump - started the
ebook market with the Kindle and wanted to keep prices low in order to stimulate the
market — and to gain and keep control
over as much of the supply chain as possible so that it could drive sales of Kindles and related devices.
The bad news bears are always loud in their opinions that traditionally published books are winning the publishing war and dominating
market share against
ebooks, and especially
over self - publishing.
Over time the sales impact will become pronounced, especially if the small
markets don't develop a local infrastructure for selling
ebooks.
In fact,
over the last few years, the mass
market form of book continues to shrink in sales almost in direct relation to the growth in
ebooks sales.
The interesting thing about that is that if that is true today, when happens
over the next year or two as
ebooks close on 50 %
market share, Borders goes away, and B&N closes most of the rest of their stores?
While the platform tends to be a third, fourth or fifth option for some authors, this will change
over time as the
ebook market matures internationally.
They have announced a simultaneous launch of their own
eBook store at the same time, setting the scene for an all - out war with Apple and Amazon
over the future of the digital
eBook market.
Amazon is the largest
ebook seller in the world and is thought to control
over 45 % of the global
market.
After all, Google, Kobo, Amazon and Apple have all setup shop with a population of
over 200 million people, there is a untapped
market for
eBooks.
I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated
eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the price of a hardcover textbook up to
over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used» book
market obsolete.
The Italian
eBook market is growing and it is estimated that
over 40,000 titles are available.
The
eBook market has blossomed
over the course of the last four years.
Amazon is clearly winning the
eBook sales race with USA
market penetration of
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Remarkable
ebook market growth expected in next 2 years — 94 % of respondents expect that
ebooks will increase as a share of books read in their school / district
over the next two years.
eBook Sales in 2011 are estimated to be
over $ 966 million dollars, up from $ 301 million dollars last year, and are to reach 2.81 billion dollars in 2015, according to
market research firm Forrester.
A US judge is still in the process of handling the DOJ lawsuit against Apple — along with five of the then - Big Six publishers — for conspiring to raise the price of
ebooks in order to impact the
market share that Amazon held
over the industry.
Over the course of the last five years, e-commerce giant Amazon has definitively captured the vast majority of the
ebook market.
This settlement isn't to be confused with the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple for colluding with five of the then - Big Six publishers to artificially raise the prices of
ebooks in order to draw some of the control
over the
market away from Amazon.
Amazon is clearly winning the
eBook sales race with USA
market penetration of
over 75 % and is primarily due to them having control
over their own destiny.
Barnes and Noble is thought to control 25 % of the US
market and generated
over 3 billion dollars with Nook hardware and
ebooks in 2012.
According to data compiled from the Turkish Publishers Association's website,
eBook sales have increased by
over 100 % from 2011 to 2012 and the dramatic increase is reminiscent to the US
market in in 2007.
B&N quickly attained
over one million titles in the first year and captured 20 % of the entire
ebook market.
There's an interview with Hugh
over at the PigeonLab blog, about Pressbooks and the state of the
ebook market.
Well as for how big the
market is — I don't have any hard and fast numbers for you but Amazon sold more
ebooks than paper books this year, and Smashwords (an
ebook distributor) publishes
over 70,000
ebooks and counting.
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In 2009,
eBooks made for only $ 113,000,000 of first quarter sales in the (
over) $ 24,000,000,000 publishing
market.5 Today, they are among the most popular products purchased online — which keeps that line of numbers growing continually.
The return to Agency Pricing allowed the B5 to
over price their
ebooks and lose
market share relative to everyone else.
«We are working with Brazilian publishers and closing sales agreements with retailers, as well as a large chain of bookstores to distribute the
eBook readers,» said Humphrey, which was excited about the digital book
market in Brazil, «In
over 5 years, 50 % of digital books will be in Brazil «bet.
The Chinese
eBook market is one of the largest in the world and by 2020 it is expected to generate
over $ 5.3 billion dollars.
No one argues that the
ebook market is saturated with content (to the point that book discovery has been a buzzworthy topic for years now); in fact, a report emerged last week that Amazon now contains
over 5 million
ebooks in its retail catalog.
B&N quickly attained
over one million titles in the first calender year and captured 20 % of the entire
ebook market.
Electronic paper (or ePaper) represents a category of display solutions that have become quite popular
over the past year or so, mostly due to the rapid «rise to stardom» of the various
eBook readers that have made their way onto the
market within this time frame and that make very good use of this technology.
With Amazon losing the
eBook price battle with one of the big publishers (Mcmillian Publishing Group with 350 companies operating in
over 80 countries), what implications will this have on the direction of the
eBook market?
The bottom line is that Amazon's
eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated
over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their new releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their
market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.
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