The last couple of years were hardly the best for American businesses, but that didn’t stop the e-book market from expanding. Even while print trade sales flatlined, e-book sales from the thirteen publishers who report to the Association of American Publishers grew by 176.6 percent.
In 2010, the market is still growing and its landscape is changing. For one, Kindle’s domination of e-book readers seems to be at an end. Credit Suisse predicts that over the next five years Amazon’s 90 percent of e-book market share will drop to 35 percent. That’s because Apple and Google are muscling in with snappier readers (the iPad) and the easy-to-access, direct e-book downloader, Google Editions. Assuming Apple and Google are successful, these three powerhouses will soon be splitting the market roughly evenly. Should Amazon be worried? Should publishers?
While Amazon’s share of the pie will shrink to a third, the pie itself should be growing rapidly, from 1 to 3 percent of total books sold by the end of 2010. This means that while Amazon will sell a smaller percentage of books sold, its profits may triple by 2015. It will still be important for publishers to get their books onto Amazon, but it won’t be enough. Google and Apple will be equally important outlets for selling books, and there may be more room for other, smaller distributors.
As e-readers change and the market grows, the more platforms a publisher can offer their books on, the better. The better, too, for customers. With more choice about where to spend their money, buyers may spur giants like Amazon and Apple to greater technological heights or make a start-up into a new industry giant, keeping the e-book industry growing.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Libraries and eBooks
The New York Times reports that:
“About 5,400 public libraries now offer e-books, as well as digitally downloadable audio books. The collections are still tiny compared with print troves. The New York Public Library, for example, has about 18,300 e-book titles, compared with 860,500 in circulating print titles, and purchases of digital books represent less than 1 percent of the library’s overall acquisition budget.”
“But circulation is expanding quickly. The number of checkouts has grown to more than 1 million so far this year from 607,275 in all of 2007, according to OverDrive, a large provider of e-books to public libraries. NetLibrary, another provider of e-books to about 5,000 public libraries and a division of OCLC, a nonprofit library service organization, has seen circulation of e-books and digital audio books rise 21 percent over the past year.”
“About 5,400 public libraries now offer e-books, as well as digitally downloadable audio books. The collections are still tiny compared with print troves. The New York Public Library, for example, has about 18,300 e-book titles, compared with 860,500 in circulating print titles, and purchases of digital books represent less than 1 percent of the library’s overall acquisition budget.”
“But circulation is expanding quickly. The number of checkouts has grown to more than 1 million so far this year from 607,275 in all of 2007, according to OverDrive, a large provider of e-books to public libraries. NetLibrary, another provider of e-books to about 5,000 public libraries and a division of OCLC, a nonprofit library service organization, has seen circulation of e-books and digital audio books rise 21 percent over the past year.”
Thursday, October 8, 2009
eBook Consumer Buying Behavior
“Other statistics of interest: 45.5% of e-book reader owners are spending between $9 and $20 a month on e-book content, and 11% of total survey respondents said they planned to purchase an e-book over the next 12 months.”
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS58530+09-Sep-2009+BW20090909
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS58530+09-Sep-2009+BW20090909
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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Welcome to the NBN Fusion Blog!
We are thrilled to announce NBN Fusion, a low-cost, integrated solution for your digital and publishing needs. Being a modern, full-service distributor means handling finished books, printer files, and e-books, as well as providing online marketing tools. By embracing these changes, NBN can help you open up new streams of revenue and compete in this changing landscape.
NBN Fusion offers a variety of services including digital book sales, book production services and book manufacturing. The digital book arm includes e-book distribution, discounted conversion services, and sales to a long list of vendors. Production services include copyediting, composition, file conversion, proofreading, indexing, and consultation. Fusion’s manufacturing services will offer extremely low rates for Print-On-Demand (POD) and Digital Short Run (DSR) and can also provide quotes from preferred printers for offset and 4-color printing.
Publishers with questions are encouraged to contact Davida Breier (dbreier[at]nbnbooks.com).
NBN Fusion offers a variety of services including digital book sales, book production services and book manufacturing. The digital book arm includes e-book distribution, discounted conversion services, and sales to a long list of vendors. Production services include copyediting, composition, file conversion, proofreading, indexing, and consultation. Fusion’s manufacturing services will offer extremely low rates for Print-On-Demand (POD) and Digital Short Run (DSR) and can also provide quotes from preferred printers for offset and 4-color printing.
Publishers with questions are encouraged to contact Davida Breier (dbreier[at]nbnbooks.com).
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