Cordón-García, José-Antonio and Alonso-Arévalo, Julio and Gómez-Díaz, Raquel and Linder, Daniel eBook Publishing in Spain: The Paradoxes of a Dual Business Model. The Electronic Library, 2014, vol. 32, n. 4. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]
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English abstract
Electronic publishing has transformed the business model of publishing houses in Spain in such a way that two models currently co-exist. There are, on the one hand, traditional publishers of mostly paper-based volumes, whose business models are based on having large catalogues of titles and large print-runs, though print-runs are increasingly smaller and returns increasingly larger. Intermediary agents operating under this model, for instance booksellers, are subject to ever-greater economic pressures, especially in the current crisis. On the other hand, digital publishing models are on the rise in Spain, at least partly as a result of digital projects by traditional publishers who are either digitalizing their catalogues or who are creating entirely new digital catalogues. However, within the rising digital sector, independent publishers have a significant share of the market. They have launched entirely new collections, use cloud-based business models and use sales and distribution systems fully in tune with a constantly-changing readership that increasingly values social networking and collaborative reading. In a rigorous and thorough study, the specificities of each of these models were studied and the consequences of each model for the future of electronic publishing in Spain were analyzed
Spanish abstract
La publicación electrónica ha transformado el modelo de negocio de las editoriales en España, de tal manera que los dos modelos actualmente coexisten . Se estudiaron las características específicas de cada uno de estos modelos y se analizaron las consecuencias de cada modelo para el futuro de la edición electrónica en España. La primera etapa de la investigación consistió en la localización de estudios que nos permite obtener indicadores útiles y datos estadísticos relativos a la publicación en España. La segunda etapa consistió en extraer de las fuentes citadas por encima de todos los datos relevantes para el estudio.
| Item type: | Journal article (Unpaginated) |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | business models, cloud-based reading, digital reading, electronic publishing, sales platforms, Spain, Edición Electrónica, Modelos de Negocio, Lectura digital, Lectura en la Nube, Plataformas de venta. España. |
| Subjects: | H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HO. e-books. J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JG. Digitization. |
| Depositing user: | Julio Alonso Arévalo |
| Date deposited: | 28 Jul 2016 09:07 |
| Last modified: | 28 Jul 2016 09:07 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/29657 |
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