Ebooks to outsell printed editions in UK by 2018
The ebook will overtake the paperback and hardback as Britons’ preferred format for reading their favourite novels by 2018, according to a report. The UK consumer ebook market – which excludes professional and educational books – is forecast to almost triple from £380m to £1bn over the next four years.
Over the same period, accounting group PwC predicts that sales of printed editions will fall by more than a third to £912m as the UK population’s reading habits become dominated by tablets, with 50% of the country expected to own an iPad, Kindle or a similar device by 2018.
More: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/04/ebooks-outsell-printed-editions-books-2018
FiveWordsForTheFuture - Oct 5, 2014 | eBooks, Economy, Information Technology, Innovation, Multimedia, Society, Technologies
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