Podcast: Measuring the E-book Market (Beyond the Book #274)
A new edition of the “Beyond the Book” podcast from the Copyright Clearance Center is now available.
Here’s the Blurb:
The e-book revolution is underway, and moving beyond North America. Using actual data – and not forecasts – The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections is considered an important step to understanding the global impact of this watershed publishing moment.
“We saw that reading devices, as well as tablet devices, have been very, very popular Christmas gifts in Europe,” explains author Ruediger Wischenbart, a Vienna-based journalist and consultant specializing in book publishing and the cultural industries. “So, we have quite a significant environment now, which tells us that 2012 is going to see very strong development.”
The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections was originally published in October 2011, and is available as a free download from O’Reilly Media. An update will be published next month at the Tools of Change 2012 conference in New York City.
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See Also: TOC Frankfurt Launches With a Global ebook Market Survey (October 10, 2011)
See Also: Download a Copy of The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections (Free, via O’Reilly)
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.