In the past year, along with new tablet computer, advanced electronic reader and enhanced version of digital content have come out; e-book market won the vigorous development. Readers began to embrace from the short length e-book to digital textbooks, a variety of the format of the digital library. And support the interaction, the visualization and based on text mode of learning digital textbooks for education is opened up a whole new world.
In March, the largest publisher’s activities-published commercial exhibition (Publishing Business Conference and Expo) in North America is particularly eye-catching.
In the application of increase in the number of e-books to buy: Talk about e-books (and the physical book) buys, we found that the reader to bypass the entity bookstore retail channel, instead, they tend to choose in network bookstore or through the special application software w to buy.
They think it is convenient although there are need epub converter to transfer in different formats. The research group company from February 28, a study released show that consumers more from network bookstore in the application and purchase of (in-app purchasing books.
With the tablet computer and smart phones on digital reading number is the increasing: Amazon’s Kindle including, and the bookstore’s Nook or SONY’s reader, e-book reader is still professional most popular e-book reading devices.
But in the tablet computer and smart phones on digital reading will increasingly popular. The book’s research group survey found that nearly 17% of readers said they preferred tablet computer is the digital reading devices (this is better than last year’s survey data grew 13%), and another 9.2% of readers say they will use more smart phones to read (this is 5.3% higher than last year).
Add interactive content will be digital textbooks standard configuration: Apple CEO Steve jobs said to his predecessor’s biography of the writer Walter ai Saxon (Walter Isaacson) said he wanted to “change” this year earnings of $8 billion textbook market, he plans to hire “a group of outstanding textbook writers to create digital version of the textbooks with ebook converter to read, and let them become iPad equipment characteristics resources” to achieve.
The arrival of the era of self-help publishing: In January 2011, amazon Kindle Singles out the library (Kindle Singles library) platform. Including all kinds of short of the pages of e-books, these ebook to fill the gaps in between novels and magazines feature article of the style of between blank, and the 30 pages to 90 pages of the space between length is characteristic. These ebook pricing for $0.99 to $4.99 between, these ebook became popular for consumers gained a thing. Their wide best-known let amazon Kindle Singles platform in the past 14 months time sales reached 2 million. In this new derived class who short works include the so-called medium-length novel, mini books, magazine book, pamphlets and long news reports.
