E-Books (Global Market)
The e-book market in the world is a nascent segment of digital content that is growing at a high rate due to growing sales of reading devices. E-books (Russian market)
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2013
In 2013, the e-book market increased by 37% compared to 2012, and in 2013-2014, the market is expected to grow by about 28%, and its volume will reach $11 billion, according to the World Newsmedia Network.
According to The Global eBook Report, at the beginning of 2014, the United States remained the largest player in the book market in the world, occupying 26% of the global market. The second largest market in terms of volume is the Chinese book market - 12% of the world market. The TOP-6 largest markets - the USA, China, Germany, Japan, France, Great Britain - account for almost 60% of the world market volume.
Characteristics of the e-book market by country
USA
In the United States, the e-books market is actively developing. Popular newspapers such as the New York Times and USA Today began to include e-book sales on their bestseller lists starting in the first quarter of 2011. The largest American publishers have revenues from e-book sales of 30 to 40%, according to The Global eBook Report. Under the influence of the rapid distribution of devices such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad, e-book sales have grown and are likely to maintain growth rates in the future. Barnes & Noble also saw the largest holiday sales ever, with most of it coming from sales through their online retailer Nook.
Great Britain
One in four UK book purchases came from a book digitally in 2013, while in 2012 only one in five were from an e-book, suggesting an increase in e-book penetration.
Japan
The main income in the e-book segment of Japan comes from comics that are easy to read on small mobile phone displays. In Japan, comics exist everywhere, they are read by young and old. There are various genres: from fiction to archeology, cooking, preschool and business comics. Mobile manga comics have created the Japanese e-book market and continue to dominate the content of other genres: fiction, science, etc. The growth of the e-book market will be facilitated by lower prices for readers and the widespread use of smartphones in Japan.
1922: Bradley Fiske Reading Machine
In 1922, Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske invented the world's first "Reading Machine." Thanks to the technology of microphone copying of ordinary printed text, the admiral was able to fit Mark Twain's book "Simpletons Abroad" of 93,000 characters on only 13 pages measuring 12 cm.
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