However, she argued, libraries have a more
significant impact on publishers than even that sizeable figure would indicate, because library use results in consumer purchases.
But publishing journals over the network will have
a significant impact on the publishers» income.
Not exact matches
Jane Tappuni says, «If 2010 has been acknowledged as the year the e-book finally became a mass market reality, then it seems that 2012 will be the year e-books start making a
significant impact on UK trade
publishers incomes.
«The new business model for e-books is having a
significant impact on what [the big]
publishers report,» said one publishing executive.
Conclusion: During Harlequin's risk assessment phrase «
publisher eligibility lists» were determined to have no
significant impact on Harlequin's business.
Before Amazon emerged, there were six major publishing houses, each with several imprints; Amazon indirectly had a
significant impact on their finances through the ebook price fixing investigation that resulted in settlements in the hundreds of millions of dollars from the
publishers alone.
«While most of the
publishers suspected a negative
impact of piracy
on legal sales,» the researchers wrote, «we find no evidence of a
significant shift in sales because of pirated copies being available online.»
The
impact on the publishing side of the trade is unknowable, but there is little doubt that it would be
significant and would probably be negative for the domestic
publishers (see my earlier paragraph
on why).