INTERNATIONAL TRENDS AND THE FUTURE OF PUBLISHING

Richard Mollet

some brief statistics

£4.3 bn book and journal revenue

35% from digital

£3.3bn book sales revenue

17% from digital – up 11% in 2014

37% of fiction bought as ebook

24% of academic text-books bought digitally

Children’s fastest growing digital sector (36%)

44% of revenue from export

Digitisation

Globalisation

Digitisation

Globalisation

Curation

Data and Privacy

Copyright Debate

Internet Silos

Rise of China

Demand for Education

to conclude…

two “mega trends” of digitisation and globalisation and the major drivers

they give rise to important sub-trends, particularly around copyright and curation

overall publishing will see a positive impact from these developments

Thank you!

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