Market Highlights: An E-book is a device that is designed mainly for the reading books in digital form. These devices optimizes readability, book durability as well as battery life to suit the readers need. Students and business professional readers are expected to generate considerable demand for e-books. With internet availability on the go, e-readers can excess variety of books and easily find the meaning of words they are unaware about which makes the reading convenience. The market study is being classified by Type (Fiction, Nonfiction & Education, Literature, Children?s Book and Comics & Graphic Novel) and major geographies with country level break-up that includes South America (Brazil, Argentina, Rest of South America), Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Rest of Asia-Pacific), Europe (Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Rest of Europe), MEA (Middle East, Africa), North America (United States, Canada, Mexico).
Key Players: The prominent players in the E-Book are Amazon (United States), Harper Collins (United States), Hachette (United States), Penguin Random House LLC. (United States), Kensington Publishing Corp. (United States), Cengage Learning (United States), Macmillan Publishers (United Kingdom), Google (United States), McGraw-Hill Education (United States) and Dot Books (United States).
The stakeholders are working to provide more sophisticated features to e-readers. American chip-maker Qualcomm and eInk displays manufacturers Prime View are working in tandem on color screens. Qualcomm is working on developing a display technology that will be capable of showing video and animation in color with little use of battery power.
Key Questions Answered in the Report What will the E-Book Market size and the growth rate be in Future? What are the key factors driving the E-Book Market? What are the key market trends and macro-economic impacting the growth of the E-Book Market? What are the challenges to market growth? Who are the key vendors in the E-Book Market? What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the E-Book Market? Trending factors influencing the market shares of the Vendors. What are the key outcomes of the five forces analysis of the E-Book Market?
Research Methodology: The top-down and bottom-up approaches are used to estimate and validate the size of the Global E-Book market. In order to reach an exhaustive list of functional and relevant players various industry classification standards are closely followed such as NAICS, ICB, SIC to penetrate deep in important geographies by players and a thorough validation test is conducted to reach most relevant players for survey in E-Book market. In order to make priority list sorting is done based on revenue generated based on latest reporting with the help of paid databases such as Factiva, Bloomberg etc. Finally the questionnaire is set and specifically designed to address all the necessities for primary data collection after getting prior appointment by targeting key target audience that includes E-book Reader Service Providers, Research Institute, Potential Technology Investors, Government Agencies and Others. This helps us to gather the data for the players revenue, operating cycle and expense, profit along with product or service growth etc. Almost 70-80% of data is collected through primary medium and further validation is done through various secondary sources that includes Regulators, World Bank, Association, Company Website, SEC filings, OTC BB, Annual reports, press releases etc.