This report has been started as a White Paper for the Tools of Change Frankfurt (TOC) conference in October 2011, at the initiative of Kat Meyer and Joe Wikert, and updated and extended in February and October 2012 and in February 2013 for the subsequent TOC events in New York and Frankfurt. Upon the discontinuation of the TOC series, the report’s publisher and owner of the TOC brand, O’Reilly Media, generously allow Rüdiger Wischenbart Content and Consulting, who had researched the report and extended it throug a small team of co-authors, to continue its publication as a ressource on the dynamic evolution of ebooks in the diversity of international markets and contexts.
Rebranded as the “Global eBook” report, we wish to thank the following organizations and individuals for their contributions to this report:
Larrauri Arantza, Libranda
Antonio Maria Avila, Spanish Publishers Association
Jesus Badenes, Planeta
Jens Bammel, IPA
Laura Balwdin, O’Reilly Media
Alessandro Baldeschi, Messagerie
Mark Bide, EDItEUR
Manuel Bonik, Lisheennageeha Consulting Limited
Carlo Carrenho, PublishNews
Javier Celaya, Dosdoce
Bashar Chebaro, Arab Scientific Publishers
Salah Chebaro, Nil WaFurat
Virginie Clayssen, Editis
Cheng Sanguo, BookDao
Gemma D’Alessandro, Mondadori
Alexander Draculic, Aleksandar Drakulic
Cameron Drew, Kobo
Dan Fauxsmith, O’Reilly Media
Christine Ferrand, Livres Hebdo
Monica Fernandez, Ministry of Culture, Spain,
Camilla Ferrier , The Marsh Agency
Yana Genova, Next Page
Johan Greif, elib
Vladimir Grigoriev, Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication (Russia)
Gilles Haeri, Flammarion
Gaby Harlow, Holtzbrinck
Michael Healy, Copyright Clearance Center
Uwe Heldt, Mohrbooks Agency
Jo Henry, Bowker Market Research
Peter Inkei, Budapest Observatory
Nasser Jarrous, Jarrous Press
Jiang Xiaojuan, Chinese Academy of Press and Publication,
Philip Jones, The Bookseller,
Tina Jordan, AAP
Sergei Kaikin, Russian Publishers Association (St Petersburg),
Chris Kenneally, Copyright Clearance Center
Jens Klingelhöfer, Bookwire.de
Ulrich Klopotek, Klopotek
Mandy Knight, PA
Denis Kotov (Russia)
Miha Kovac, Mladinska Kniga & University of Ljubljana
Inge Kralupper, Hauptverband des österreichischen Buchhandels
Bjarke Larsen, BogMarketed Denmark,
Arnaud Lavalette, SNE (French syndicate)
Albrecht Lempp (+, Poland)
Daniel Lenz, buchreport
Siviu Lupescu, Polirom publisher
Jo Lusby, Penguin China
Eric Marbeau, Gallimard,
Stefano Mauri, GeMS,
Kat Meyer, ConTec Frankfurt Book Fair
Jim Milliott, Publishers Weekly
Geza Morcsanyi Magvető publisher
Johannes Neufeld, Boersenverein
Fabian Niebling, Libri.de
Jonathan Nowell, Nielsen Book Scan
Hong Ouyang, China
Bas Pauw, Dutch Leteren Fonds
Angus Philipps, Oxford Brookes University
Fabrice Piault, Livres Hebdo
Olga Ro, Book Industry Magazine
Renato Salvetti, Edigita
Ronald Schild, Libreka
Christian Schniedermann, Weltbild
Alexandra Shipetina, Eksmo
George Slowik, Publishers Weekly
Cora Stephan (Germany)
Peter Swienkels, Kobo
Patricio Tixis, Planeta
Vesselin Todorov, Ciela Norma
Cecilia van Dalen, Dutch Publishers Association
Len Vlahos, BISG
Alexander Voropaev, Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication (Russia)
Paula Vrolijk, Dutch Publishers Association
Joe Wikert, Olive Software
Thomas Wilking, buchreport
Gabriel Zafrani, Syndicat national de l'édition
Magdalena Zając, Empik Poland,
Lisa Liping Zhang (China)
Rüdiger Wischenbart is a publishing consultant based in Vienna, Austria, specializing in international and digital developments in the publishing and other cultural industries. He also researched and (co-) authored the Global Publishing Markets survey for the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry.
Carlo Carrenho is a publishing consultant, trade journalist, and Digital Future Enthusiast, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the founder of the Brazilian book online trade magazine PublishNews and its English-language sister, www.publishnewsbrazil.com[PublishNews Brazil], and he is a council member at Digital Book World.
Miha Kovac started his career in 1985-86 as Editor-in-Chief of Mladina, the only opposition paper in that time in Yugoslavia. In the 1990s, he moved to book publishing and became Editor-in-Chief of Mladinska knjiga, the biggest Slovene book publishing house. In 2000, he started to teach publishing at the University of Ljubljana, and has written extensively on publoishing and on Slovenian politics. He holds a PhD in Library and Information Science. In 2010, he returned to book publishing as head of digital development at Mladinska knjiga
Veronika Licher is a publishing consultant as well as a commissioning and copy editor based in Germany. Fluent in Mandarin, she has specialized in reporting on the Chinese book and publishing market since 2000.
Vinutha Mallya is the Principal at LineSpace Consulting, a publishing advisory based in Bangalore, India. She is contributing editor to Publishing Perspectives, a consulting editor to Mapin Publishing, and visiting faculty at the National Book Trust of India.