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Report - Publishing in the digital era

Will e-readers and tablets change the book ecosystem forever? Bain & Company surveyed 3000 consumers in three continents to assess the impact of new digital platforms on reading behavior.

Study « Publishing in the digital era », Bain & Company

The results suggest that more than 20% of book sales could be digital by 2015 in select markets, capturing up to 25% of the overall value pool. The impact is significant along the entire value chain, challenging historical pricing policies, as well as relationships between retailers, publishers and authors.

One issue emerges as most critical: merely translating existing content will not generate sustainable value. Experimenting with new formats, for example non-linear, social, is where the opportunity lies.

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Points of view :

• Françoise Benhamou (professor, economist)

• Georges Sanerot (President of the executive board, Bayard)

Videos :

• “Will the ebook kill the bookstore ?”

• “The digital book, a new universal library ?”

• “Toward the extinction of paper ?” 

• Interview of Antoine Gallimard

Articles :

Culture, financing, economic models :

• Always Further - Adopt an e-book, save a manuscript !
• Always further - books : Orbooks reinvents publishing with an innovative economic model
• Did you know? Ebook piracy costs $3 billions to the American editors

Culture, innovation and digital :

• Always Further - Manolosanctis : a new way forward for the digital publishing industry
• Always further - the development of digital publishing in China
• Always Further - The social Netbook

Web Review :

• U.S. sues Apple, publishers over e-book prices

• Neelie Kroes invites the European publishers