RSSThe Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (FGEE) and the German Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation have presented the results about the ‘Survey on the use of the ebooks in Spain’: Impact of the digitalisation, distribution channels and commercial policies.
We highly recommend you to read more in deep the report. However, in this post we have collected a few of these conclusions:
75% of the editorials are already carrying out some kind of digitalisation, being the Comics the books that are more rapidly adapted to digital formats
By 2011, ereaders will be more used that computers to read books
By 2012, one third of the editorials will offer half of their catalog in a digital format (compare this to the 5% in final 2009).
The trends is that digital books will remain 30% cheaper than the non-digital versions
Regarding formats, EPUB seems to be winning the race. 40% of the total books were in epub format in 2010 and is expected to be around 70% in 2011. PDF use is expected to decrease by 2012.
It is also remarkable to see that 50% of the editorials will develop digital versions for smartphones and tablets, following the trend of high availability of these devices.
Finally, concerning distribution, it seems that most of the editorials are focusing their strategy in the use of joint plattforms that offer the products of several editorials.
You can check the full report here.
Or a draft here
