E-book Trends and Technology:

Adapting and Winning

Andrew Weinstein, VP & GM, Digital Retail Solutions

A Series of

Short Stories

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Hardware Story

14% of U.S. online consumers

intend to buy some type of tablet

computer in the next 12 months;

11% a dedicated e-Reader

Forrester Research Survey

5.9 million US adults own an

e-Reader vs. 2.1 million surveyed

a year earlier

Gfk MRI

8.5 million iPads expected in 2010

(88% share)

eMarketer

18,000 Nook Color devices

produced each and everyday

Len Riggio

20 million expected in 2011

30 million expected in 2012

(74% share)

Que Reader Pro Cancelled by

PlasticLogic

SF Gate

Publishers Weekly

Copia Book Retail Social Network

Goes Live; Devices Cancelled

App Story

Apple’s iOS mobile operating

system is now the third-most

popular platform on the Internet

Computer World

“We think we are ahead of everybody.”

Steve Jobs

In just 2 years, Google’s

Android smart phone platform

went from zero to 300,000

handsets sold per day

Information Week

Cloud Story

Successful clouds

Content Sales Story

Kindle e-books (now) selling more

than hardcovers; 9-12 months

(from now) until more than

paperback

Sam Feldman, Forbes.com

Amazon customers buy 3.3

times as many books after

buying a Kindle

Wall Street Journal

Stieg Larsson first writer to sell

1 million Kindle books

PC World

Doubleday says e-book sales were

about one third of week one

hardcover sales…or around 70,000

Through October 2010, e-book sales

are up 171% to $345 million

“Within the fiscal year, worldwide

digital sales will exceed $100

million”

P&T E-book sales increased in Q2 to

$6 million (5% of total sales)

AAP

Random House

Wiley

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Helping content reach

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Global Story

iPad available in 35 countries

(PadGadget)

Amazon Kindle sells out

ahead of UK launch

Cnet UK

The plot thickens

Tomorrow’s story

“…predicting growth in e-book sales to 25% of all

new "straight-text, narrative books" in 2-1/2 years.”

Mike Shatzkin, CEO of the Idea Logical Company

Social media continues to attract a range of

readers—69% of book buyers engage in some kind

of social networking—and book buying influences

come increasingly online.

“I have seen more change in the last year in

publishing than I did in the previous 29.”

Bruce Shaw, Harvard Common Press

How does the story end?

Hardware

Apps

Cloud

Content Sales

International

The story continues…

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