Summary: smartphone will be the leading ereading device and push the merging ebook markets like south america, africa, asia and middle east

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WAYS TO ENTER THE DIGITAL MARKETPLACE SUCCESSFULLY
4 May 2014, Tehran International Book Fair
Expert: Steffen Meier, readbox publishing gmbh
Organiser: Frankfurt Book Fair, in cooperation with Tehran Publishers
and Booksellers Union
Sponsored by: German Federal Foreign Office
Financial support:

2. AGENDA
EBOOK MARKETS:
TRANSATLANTIC AND EMERGING MARKETS
THE ROLE OF DEVICES FOR
EMERGING DIGITAL MARKETS
HOW TO DEVELOP DIGITAL MARKETS
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3. TRANSATLANTIC MARKETS
USA, UK, GERMANY
SOURCE: WHATSTHATPICTURE HTTPS://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/WHATSTHATPICTURE
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4. MARKETS & TRENDS: USA
THE RISE OF THE EBOOK: AAP (ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS)
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5. MARKETS & TRENDS : USA
NEARLY 30% OF ALL BOOKS PURCHASED IN THE U.S. ARE EBOOKS (2009-2012)
(BOWKER 2013)
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6. MARKETS & TRENDS: USA
EBOOK REVENUE (AAP 2013): MORE THAN 15 BILLION DOLLAR 2012
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7. MARKETS & TRENDS: USA
EBOOK SALES 2011/2012 IN CATEGORIES (AAP/BISG)
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8. MARKETS & TRENDS: GERMANY
SURVEY PUBLISHING HOUSES, ALL SEGMENTS COMPRISED,
REVENUE SHARE OF E-BOOKS (BÖRSENVEREIN 2012)
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6.2
9.5
16
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
2011 2012 2015

9. MARKETS & TRENDS: GERMANY
E-BOOK DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS 2012 IN % (GFK)
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15
4118
16
10
Direct &
Other
Amazon
Weltbild
Thalia
Apple

10. MARKETS & TRENDS: UNITED KINGDOM
UK POPULATION (13-79 YRS) WHO HAVE BOUGHT AN EBOOK 2011-2013
(NIELSEN BOOKSCAN 2013)
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11. MARKETS & TRENDS: UK
VOLUME SALES OF PHYSICAL BOOKS AND EBOOKS (2011-2013)
(NIELSEN BOOKSCAN 2013)
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12. EMERGING MARKETS
SOURCE: PHOTOPHILDE HTTPS://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/PHOTOPHILDE
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13. Frankfurter Buchmesse, © Steffen Meier 2014 (Readbox)
Ebooks worldwide
Forecast: North america leads the way in ebook-adoption
consumer ebook spending in Mio. US Dollar (PWC 2013)

14. Frankfurter Buchmesse, © Steffen Meier 2014 (Readbox)
WHO HAVE BOUGHT AN E-BOOK IN THE PAST 6 MONTHS?
(IN MILLIONS, BOWKER 2012)

15. Frankfurter Buchmesse, © Steffen Meier 2014 (Readbox)
RUSSIAN EBOOK MARKET
(MARKET VOL. 1,8 BILLION DOLLAR, EBOOK > 1%, 2013)

16. Frankfurter Buchmesse, © Steffen Meier 2014 (Readbox)
BRAZILIAN EBOOK MARKET
(EBOOK UNIT SALES JAN/12 TO DEC/13, CARLO CORRENHO)
MARKET VOL. 3,7 BILLION DOLLAR, EBOOK 2,5 %)

17. THE ROLE OF DEVICES
FOR DIGITAL MARKETS
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18. THE TRANSATLANTIC
DOMINANCE IS (WAS) BASED
ON SINGLE-PURPOSED
DEVICES
FOR THE MOMENT…
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19. Frankfurter Buchmesse, © Steffen Meier 2014 (Readbox)
E-BOOK MARKET RELATES ON A DYNAMIC
HARDWARE MARKET More ebooks as printed books (amazon)

20. THE RISE OF THE
MULTI-PURPOSED DEVICE
(SMARTPHONE, TABLET…)
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21. MARKET PENETRATION DEVICES WORLDWIDE
(NIELSEN 2011, IN PERCENT)
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4.00
6.00
8.00
16.00
21.00
25.00
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Tablet PC
eReader
Netbooks
Mobile Media Devices
Mobile Gaming Consoles
Smartphones

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E-READER VS. TABLETS
People with e-reading Devices Worldwide (Bookbon 2012)
30.6%
28.1%
8.1%
11.7%
18.2%
0.5%
16%
13.2%
0.7%
2.6% 2.2%
0.1%
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
United
States
United
Kingdom
France Germany Denmark India United
States
United
Kingdom
France Germany Denmark India
TABLETS EREADER

23. SINGLE VS. MULTI-PURPOSED DEVICES
(IHS, WALL STREET JOURNAL 2013)
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24. “SMARTPHONES ARE NOW THE WORLD’S
DOMINANT COMPUTING DEVICE!”
ALEX COCOTAS, BUSINESS INSIDER 2012
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25. Frankfurter Buchmesse, © Steffen Meier 2014 (Readbox)
TOP SIX SMARTPHONE MARKETS
BASED ON SHARE OF GLOBAL SHIPMENTS

26. SMARTPHONE USER AFRICA/MIDDLE-EAST
MILLION USER, WIRELESS INTELLIGENCE 2010
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23.7
31.5
31.71
50.12
52.81
62.17
66.27
74.62
86.83
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
KENYA
MOROCCO
ALGERIA
SOUTH AFRICA
SAUDI ARABIA
TURKEY
EGYPT
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
NIGERIA

27. WHY SMARTPHONE?
SOURCE: TECHANDLEARN HTTPS://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/TEACHANDLEARN
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29. BRAZIL: BOOKS AND MAGAZINES ARE EVEN MORE
POPULAR ON MOBILE DEVICES
"WHILE WATCHING TV AND MOVIES ON MOBILE DEVICES
SCORED HIGH WITH YOUNG BRAZILIANS, CONSUMING
TRADITIONAL MEDIA SCORED EVEN HIGHER. AROUND
71% OF BRAZILIANS AGED 15-24 REPORT READING
BOOKS ON MOBILE DEVICES, WHILE 67% READ
MAGAZINES AND 58% READ NEWSPAPERS“.
US-MEDIACONSULTING, 2013
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30. GERMANY: E-READING ON SMARTPHONES IS ARRIVING…
STUDY 2014 BITKOM/BÖRSENVEREIN
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31. THE FUTURE OF
E-READING IS BASED ON
MULTI-PURPOSED DEVICES
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32. EMERGING MARKETS: DIGITAL FIRST
"E-PUBLISHING GROWTH IS ORGANIC IN THE
DEVELOPING WORLD…IN AFRICA, PHYSICAL BOOKS ARE
THOUGHT OF AS PRINTED EBOOKS"
OCTAVIO KULESZ
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33. LEARNINGS
THE EBOOK MARKET IS GLOBALLY GROWING FAST
ONE DRIVER, ESPECIALLY IN EMERGING MARKETS,
IS THE SMARTPHONE AS A MULTI-PURPOSED DEVICE
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34. CHALLENGES IN DIGITAL MARKETS
TECHNICAL WORKFLOWS (FORMATS) & PLATFORMS
CONTENT WITH WHICH TOOLS?
WHICH CONTENT FOR WHICH DEVICE?
WHICH PLATFORMS REACH YOUR READER?
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35. CHALLENGES IN DIGITAL MARKETS
METADATA & VISIBILITY IN THE
DIGITAL JUNGLE
IF YOUR READER SEARCH FOR CONTENT IN THE WEB –
CAN HE FOUND YOU?
WHICH DATA NEEDS YOUR SELLING PLATFORM?
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36. CHALLENGES IN DIGITAL MARKETS
COPYRIGHT
HOW TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF YOUR AUTHORS – AND
YOURS?
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37. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
STEFFEN MEIER
STEFFEN.MEIER@READBOX.NET
Frankfurter Buchmesse © 2014 Steffen Meier