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Título
(E-)Book Publishing in Spain: The Paradoxes of a Dual Business Model
Autor(es)
Materia
Business models
Cloud-based reading
Digital reading
Electronic publishing
Sales platforms
Spain
Libros electrónicos
Industria editorial
Fecha de publicación
2015
Citación
Cordón-García, J.A., Linder, D., Gómez-Díaz, R., Alonso-Arévalo, J. (2015). E-book publishing in Spain: the paradoxes of a dual model The Electronic Library, 32(4), pp. 567–582
Resumen
[EN] 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
URI
ISSN
0264-0473
DOI
10.1108/el-12-2012-0155
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