Global eBook 2016

The 2016 edition of the Global eBook report, with more than 50 data driven original charts and tables, is the international industry reference on the evolution of ebook markets focuses on relevant key angles for an understanding of the current transformation of book publishing in a global perspective:

Market close ups (print and digital) for the US, UK, Europe (notably France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands Spain, Sweden, and a detailed overview on Central and Eastern Europe),

Plus analysis of selected emerging markets, notably Brazil, China, India and Russia;

Summaries of key debates and driving forces (global players such as Amazon, statistical close ups on pricing, performance by genre, piracy, patterns of consumer habits, DRM, self publishing, et al.)

We provide an overview of trends and developments, based on a unique set of data from a wide array of the best available sources, backed up by a thorough analysis of overall book publishing in the diverse international contexts.

The 2016 edition of the Global eBook report particularly emphasizes how digital developments are embedded in the overall evolution of publishing markets, by providing context data as well as historical statistics to spot trends and developments over the past 3 to 7 years.

Main driving forces and policy as well as legal debates shaping the current transformation of the international book business are identified and looked at in country and market comparisons.

Rüdiger Wischenbart is a publishing consultant based in Vienna, Austria, specializing in international and digital developments in the publishing and other cultural industries. He also researched and (co-) authored the Global Publishing Markets survey for the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry. He serves as a Director for international affairs to BookExpo America, and a Director of Publishers' Forum, Berlin.

Carlo Carrenho is a publishing consultant, trade journalist, and Digital Future Enthusiast, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the founder of the Brazilian book online trade magazine PublishNews, and its Englishlanguage sister, PublishNews Brazil, and he is a council member at Digital Book World.

Miha Kovac started his career in 1985-86 as Editor-in-Chief of Mladina, the only opposition paper in that time in Yugoslavia. In the 1990s, he moved to book publishing and became Editor-in-Chief of Mladinska knjiga, the biggest Slovene book publishing house. In 2000, he started to teach publishing at the University of Ljubljana, and has written extensively on publishing and on Slovenian politics. He holds a PhD in Library and Information Science. In 2010, he returned to book publishing as head of digital development at Mladinska knjiga.

Vinutha Mallya is the Principal LineSpace Consulting, a publishing advisory based in Bangalore, India. She is contributing editor to Publishing Perspectives, a consulting editor to Mapin Publishing, and visiting faculty at the National Book Trust of India.