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Consumers drive book digitisation, says survey
Book digitisation is being driven by consumers, online retailers and search engines, according to a survey by Frankfurt Book Fair. Over 1,000 industry professionals from over 30 countries responded to the survey, issued via the Frankfurt Book Fair Newsletter.
Of
these, 22 per cent said that consumers were pushing the move towards
digitisation, 21 per cent said it was being driven by the likes of Amazon and
20 per cent put Google as the driver. A further 13 per cent attributed the
digitisation push to the telecommunications sector. In contrast, just 7 per
cent of respondents thought that publishers were driving this move and only 2
per cent thought the push came from authors. The survey also concluded that
In
addition, almost 60 per cent of respondents said that they do not currently use
e-books and e-readers at all, and 66 per cent of industry professionals still
expect traditional books to dominate the market in five years’ time, with very
few expecting e-books (7 per cent) or e-readers (2 per cent) to be the main
sources of revenue by 2013. Top concerns with e-books included copyright,
digital rights management, having a standard format (such as epub), and retail
price maintenance.
Source: Research Information Journal
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