The e-publishing industry seems to have grown tremendously as a consequence of the success of many devices; besides, publishers see that publishing e-books comes with numerous benefits including lower investment, low inventory storage costs, cheaper production costs, and above all, the ability to create a stronger international customer base. Besides changing the way books are read these days, e-book readers will modify the way books are published, purchased and delivered. Let’s take a look into this e-publishing industry and its future.

How the current e-book publication markets looks?

Well, publishing e-books doesn’t seem to be a novel idea; e-readers have been around the globe for several years; in fact, ever since Franklin e-Bookman got released in the year 1999. The invasive spread of e-books in awareness of the reading habit on handheld gadgets, better broadband connectivity, lifestyle changes that are technologically-influenced, and increasing use of e-books in all educational institutions are all creating a great requirement for digital journals, books, and magazines. In a recent survey conducted among the US e-book reader owners, it was reported that 80% of them choose to use their reader in order to read a traditional book. Well, this is a reasonably solid endorsement of e-reading experience as well as the opportunity it provides to the entire e-book publication market.

What sort of e-books is read widely by people?

The number of people that read e-books is increasing year after year. The most popular kinds of e-books that are read on e-readers include fiction, e-zines, e-journals, and multimedia e-books. In fact, e-Learning has caught up in a large way as well, with students choosing textbooks in e-format owing to their convenience and low cost, and with institutions increasingly preferring these as a solution to continual updation required of textbooks.

How are issues of copyright and piracy tackled in the industry of e-book publishing?

When publishing e-books; publishers are required to address some important issues such as copyright and piracy. Rampant piracy in music industry has paved way to concern in minds of book publishers. To tackle e-book piracy, DRM or Digital Rights Management technology is used by e-publishers. It perhaps inhibits the use of the digital content which is not intended or desired by the content provider; moreover, it offers copy protection that cannot be subject to circumvention without changing the device or file. Currently, e-publishing giants like Amazon, Apple, AOL, Sony and Microsoft are all using the DRM technology in order to safeguard copyright as well as fight piracy.

In general, e-publishing is beneficial in a lot of ways to both publishers and the readers. It has grown in all dimensions and is coming up with new versions catering to the changing lifestyle and latest gadgets.