Trends driving the Digital Book Market Dr. Amir Winer, Head of Interactive Courseware, Shoham, The Open University of Israel pdf file of the presentation at the EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Culture, Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, 12-13 November 2013 http://www.digital-heritage.org.il Presentations available at: http://2013.minervaisrael.org.il

1. The Center for Technology in Distance Education
amirwi@openu.ac.il

6. The Winner Takes it All
The Guardian
reported that 98 UK
publishers went out
of business over the
past year, an
increase of 42% over
the year before
• deep retail
discounts
• new digital
business models

7. The Shallows
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8. All Hell Broke Loose
Crapshoot
A phrase used to
describe
something of
which the chances
of achieving said
thing are so
low, doing so feels
like winning the
lottery.

9. eReader

10. Tablet

12. The Matrix
eChildren
eTextbooks
eReader
TEXTUAL
Tablet
ENHANCED
APP
eFiction
Tablet

13. Linear Vs. Fragmental

14. Interactive, Responsive Vs. Passive UX

15. Social Vs. Solitude

17. Big Data
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