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The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections via shop.oreilly.com TWIMC, как говорится.

Futuresource Consulting, a UK-based consulting firm, published the research on e-books and e-readers. “Despite all this rapid growth in demand for e-books in Western Europe, the market is still in its infancy, representing less than 1 percent of total consumer spending on books,” Futuresource market analyst Fiona Hoy said. “Moving forward, there are enormous opportunities within the market and our forecasts show Western European e-book revenues will reach €1.6 billion by 2015, accounting for 15% of total book spend and representing one out of every five books sold in the region.

E Ink says that displays for e-book readers are in such high demand that its tripling every year. They say that the number of e-readers sold in 2011 could reach 25-30 million, 3 times the number sold in 2010. DisplaySearch estimates that about 27 million units will be shipped in 2011. via e-reader-info.com EInk, видимо, знает, что говорит. К этому правда, видимо, надо добавить какое-то количество экранов от SiPix — тоже «бумага».

E-books, print on demand, online sales sites, the boom in mobile phones… new technologies are profoundly transforming the way texts circulate. Developing countries, however, which face serious limitations in infrastructure, have a considerable challenge ahead of them. What new actors are emerging in the countries of the South, outside of the powerful platforms already existing in the US, Europe and Japan? Is it conceivable that there may be an autonomous evolution of digital publications in developing countries, entirely independent of the richest nations?

Осваиваю SlideShare. Scribd, оказывается, тут же начинает монетизировать ;)

Although consumer trade books get a majority of the attention, professional and scholarly books, which include the legal, scientific/technical, medical and business segments, hold 75.9% of the $1.76 billion U.S. E-book market. The latest market research report from media and publishing forecast firm Simba Information, "Professional Publishing in the Digital Age: E-Books in Libraries," predicts library collection managers will set aside more of their budget for E-books over the next few years.

via futurebook.net Франция 0,5% Германия 1% Япония 1,1% Нидерладнды 0,3% Южная Африка, Испания 1,6% Италия 0,1-0,2% Англия 1-9% США 8% Ясно, что учтены только прямые продажи.

По итогам 2010 года общий объем продаж устройств для чтения цифровых книг на российском рынке оказался значительно больше, нежели указывалось в предварительных данных, и составил 539000 штук (с учетом ридеров с дисплеем на основе технологии «электронных чернил», а также «псевдоридеров» – устройств с TFT-дисплеем). Годовой рост рынка, таким образом, составил 285%. via pro-books.ru То есть весь рынок букридеров можно оценить по меньшей мере в 700-800 тыс. Скромно.

The analysis reported that in 2010 e-book sales in the UK represented 1.5% of the overall market, or $52m (£33.1m), but that by 2015 they would represent 14.2% of the market, or $534m (£339.9m), amounting to growth of 59.3%. E-book sales in the US were estimated at $1.5bn (£955.1m) in 2010, 7.2%, of the overall books market, and were expected to grow to $5.6bn (£3.56bn) by 2015, 22.5% of the overall market, representing growth of 30%.

Consider it an inauguration of sorts, a celebration of the eBook industry becoming a member of the major media club just as digital music and online video have before them. When you influence a billion dollars, people have to take you seriously. In the book business, it means that traditional publishers can no longer live in deny-and-delay mode; meanwhile, digital publishers get invited to better parties and people in other media businesses like TV and magazines look over and wonder if they could cut a slice of this new pie just for them.