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The concerns raised in German or North American buy localinitiatives are not just fancies of the most affluent audiences.On the periferies, in fragmented, crisis struck markets,in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in Spain or Italy, thechallenge from the global players is felt as a direct menace,as they cater, notably through reading in the English language,to the strongest, best educated, most versatilereaders - while increasing the stiff competition with thelocal industry by putting a huge pressure on pricing.The United States plus Western Europe are not anymorethe sole centers of gravity. China continues to grow, alsowith regard to books and publishing, and readies severalof its largest publishing groups to have a role internationally,while the - long delayed - advent of Amazon and theKindle, as devices and as an online shop, are expected toaccelerate Chinese responses.In Brazil, as in India, and throughout all the other emergingeconomies, the global players have arrived, expand theirfootprint, while the local book industries feel the mountingchallenge from an economic slow down, even furtheraggravated by the recently chilly developments in formlerlyfriendly currency markets.But in those same countries, yet another factor is framingthe ebook trajectory, and that is various ambitions of governments,to actively shape the new horizons throughregulation. In the US and in the European Union, they havestepped into the arena, to have their say on central businesspractices (and notably competition issues, which aredefining pricing strategies and, as a result, on the powerbalance between publishers and distributors), on taxation,and on copyright. In all the emerging economies, governmentspending is crucial in framing the educational sector.It is far from certain though, if these ambitions, in the longrun, will meet the initially outlined political goals.Throughout history, books, and the content contained inand disseminated through books, has been a scarce andalso well-guarded source of knowledge and entertainmentfor an elite. This will change drastically and mostlikely rapidly, as books get embedded in the global flowsof digital content, easy and affordable to access, anywhere,at any time.One thing is clear though: Ebooks have started to transformthe entire ecosystem of authors, books and reading. By2014, expect the entire value chain to be under scrutinyfrom all sides. And expect the transformation of the book,and of publishing, to morph into a transformation of reading.153 The Global eBook Report
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ContentsAbout the Global eBook Repo
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• The Bookseller (United Kingdom)
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Executive SummaryThis report provid
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The ambitions, and thelimitations o
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ending requests by email and face t
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Chris Kenneally, Copyright Clearanc
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A Global Industry, and Many Local P
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transformation longer than other se
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The Bookish Elites: Market size & n
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Book markets evolution in selected
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Market share of ebooks (in various
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English Language eBookMarketsThe fo
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United States (2010-2011 Book Marke
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Ebooks accounted in 2013 for one in
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stores, and 700 Argo stores, as wel
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Metadata is the key to online sales
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EuropeGermanyUpdate spring 2014Afte
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GermanyKey Indicators Values Source
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Ebooks evolve in a complex and chal
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actively seeking Google’s coopera
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SpainKey Indicators Values Sources,
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early days there. Yet according to
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According to the Danish book trade
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and Amazon is as well. Barnes & Nob
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PolandKey Indicators Values Sources
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The emerging role of ebooks in Cent
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Nemokamospdfknygos (Aida Dubkeviči
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play a role for starting to change
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RussiaKey Indicators Values Sources
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OzonOzon is a general retailer sell
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tribute the PDFs they had received
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a company wants—and it should—t
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also has the fourth largest install
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ChinaKey Indicators Values Sources,
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lion in 2008 to ¥60 million in 201
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The National Book Trust (NBT), the
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tion. Of these, 73% youth are liter
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Wiley were among the first. Much of
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launched with 47 titles, available
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Ebook publishers are faced with the
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Arabia, the situation improves dram
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Contributed articleCopyright Cleara
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Forces Shaping the eBook MarketsA c
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In the current battle over emerging
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Paradoxically, the global expansion
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The Expansion of GlobalPlatformsPub
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Interestingly, all Amazon figures b
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$1.8 billion”, equalling some 8%
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leader in the digital industry thro
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By January 2013, Kobo claimed to ow
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