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Digital Strategy For Publishers
- 1. Digital Strategy forPublishers David Stephens, Managing Director Liz Murray, Sales and Marketing Manager www.ljinteractive.com [email_address]
- 2. Digital Publishing –what are we talking about? eBooks enhanced eBooks magazine type publications and partworks use of content in apps licensing content for other applications for example websites We’re not talking about whether paper books are better than eBooks or whether we prefer them … that is a personal choice. Paper is not likely to go away for the foreseeable future! This is a question about what is the potential for the digital market and can we make any money out of selling our content digitally?
- 3. Are we “bovered”?… what is the potential of the digital market?
- 4. Book Sales aregoing through a difficult time. Total book sales : September figures US revenue down 7.7% to $1.51bn. UK revenue down 3.2% to £132.2m Total book sales : Year Jan – Sept figures US revenue down 2.6% to $12.31bn UK revenue down 3.6% to $1.129bn Publishers Weekly , quoting US Census Bureau figures, 16/11 How much should we be interested?
- 5. What is themarket saying about digital? Goldman Sachs report (April 2010) … eBook sales will increase fourfold in 2015 to $3.19 billion and print book sales will fall 4.9 percent to $21.7 billion. The International Digital Publishing Forum collects quarterly US trade retail eBook sales in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Bain & Company, Patrick Béhar and Laurent Colombani. (Nov 2010) Between 15% and 20% of the book reading public will own electronic devices and up to 25% of books will be sold in digital form by 2015. Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading business division “ e-books sales will overtake print sales within five years” Forrester Research, Inc. (Nov 2010) “ US spending on e-books was expected to total $966m this year, up from 301 million dollars last year and to triple, reaching $2.81 billion, in 2015.”
- 6. Cambridge University PressCEO, Stephen Bourne “ The quality of publishing has improved markedly—some has been in print and some has been digital. The latter is making quite an impact.” According to the publisher’s annual report, 20% of sales for its past financial year are for digital products… this figure could rise above two-thirds by 2020.” What are publishers saying about digital? Random House Chief Executive, Markus Dohle “ We’re at 8 percent in the US currently, I could well imagine that we get beyond 10 percent next year,” ... he did not expect e-books to generally overtake printed books in the next five years but expected eBooks to account for 25 to 50% of total sales by 2015. Pearson “ Soaring demand for digital books has led Pearson, the owner of Penguin and the Financial Times, to lift its profit forecast for the second time this year.” Hachette UK appoints first digital director to drive sales of e-books, Sept 10 Hachette UK (owners of Little Brown, Hodder Headline and Orion) says that electronic sales now account for eight per cent of their turnover. HarperCollins UK chief executive and publisher Victoria Barnsley "In a tough trading year when the market dropped and home sales were down, HarperCollins UK managed to deliver significant operating profit growth on the back of a strong export market, exceptional rights income, higher digital revenues and cost savings related to prior year restructuring.
- 7. What are authorssaying about digital? Ian McEwan, winner of the Booker prize, signed an agreement with Rosetta Books, a specialised eBook publishing house.
- 8. Pressure from Authorsto get into digital products? Self publishing market
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- 13. So what conclusionscan we draw on the digital market? In the USA, digital is currently between 5-10% of some of the larger publishers revenue , probably slightly less in the UK. Digital sales in the USA are forecasted to rise to around 25% of book sales by 2015 . Figures probably skewed by black and white titles? UK is roughly 1 year behind the USA? South Africa, Australia and New Zealand markets are further behind so should we be leading the group? it is likely that some publishers will encounter growing pressure from authors to make books available digitally
- 14. … whatwe can confidently say Digital is definitely on its way and at least part of the market has an appetite for it. Its currently only a very small part of the market but a conservative estimate is that it is likely to be 10-20% within 5 years. Could be worth over £1m at current revenue levels to NHP UK.
- 15. So … arewe “bovered”? … we should be … digital is not something we should ignore.
- 16. How does digitalaffect the publisher?
- 17. Does digital changethe role of the publisher? Commissioning a print run or exporting an eBook isn’t the core activity of any publisher, or the difficult part of publishing. The hard parts are still the same as they have always been creating the content, dealing with authors, photographs etc. design and editing marketing and selling
- 18. Issues to overcome?Everything is still evolving, we don’t want to spend lots of time and money going down the wrong path. Publishing production processes are not suited to digital and digital conversion is a little convoluted. Copyright protection. No precedents set for pricing or business models or even contracts. Do we have research, development or innovation culture required to spot and develop new opportunities?
- 19. What is thetechnology and what opportunities does it bring?
- 20. Types of digitalproducts Basic ebooks Many ebooks are simply a digital version of the printed product. … eg as a pdf Enhanced ebooks or applications can provide extra features ... Multimedia such as videos, sound, music and various degrees of interactivity Inclusion of live content from wide range of sources such as blogs and websites. Interactive reader participation in book content. Social networks digital publishing has created a feedback mechanism, whereby authors can communicate directly with their audience, and readers can communicate with one another. Licensing content for Websites or other applications
- 21. Examples Simple ebookChristine Kringle Illustrative ebook Pilgrims Travels Enhanced ebook 90 Second Fitness Solutions Apps London City Walks London Cycle The Elements Layar and Jack the Ripper Tour Websites Penguin: The 21 steps http://wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/ Eurostar Trip Planner http://www.eurostartripplanner.com/en-uk/paris/search/index.aspx
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- 23. eBooks/enhanced books/iphone appsetc – What do they cost to produce? £50-£500 £2000-£4000 £3000-£20k Standard eBook as an exact copy of the printed book (pdf, epub) Book content reformatted into an application Links to forums and social networking weblinks Ability to add or update information Video content Audio content Search and indexing facilities annotation facilities Interactive graphics such as maps, charts, 3D drawings Ability to interact with or take part in the book
- 24. The Christmas marketfor apps and enhanced ebooks Publishers said they were expecting increased interest in digital products from consumers looking for electronic content after Christmas. Faber will be releasing three apps linked to comedy titles in time for Christmas. Bloomsbury will be putting out two free apps to act as marketing support for two of its print titles. Random House has at least three apps slated for release before Christmas. - Tommy Cooper's Mirth, Magic and Mischief on 13th December for £1.19, including a "Laugh-o-meter" where you can hear a slideshow of jokes. Simon & Schuster has two. Penguin Peppa Pig app, Stars, an interactive storybook app tying in to the picture book of the same name. Harper Collins, and Hachette are also offering Christmas apps.
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- 26. Google Editions isdue out before Christmas. Supermarkets such as Sainsbury’s and Tesco’s are planning digital downloads from their websites.
- 27. Selling through ebookretailers means we still need to market the ebook Traditional marketing. Websites. Social. Using Apps or ebooks for marketing.
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- 29. Key concepts Inone form or another and whether we like it or not, digital is on its way! Digital is currently only a very small part of the market but 10-20% within 5 years Digital doesn’t change the core functions of a publisher but could change how we do things, from concept and production through to marketing and selling. We will require an open minded and innovative approach to look for opportunities. There is a risks that lack of action will mean authors/readers will circumvent publishers. Marketing, niche digital and social marketing. Digital is an opportunity we can’t afford to miss … but we need to be looking for opportunities and don't be afraid to try things.
- 30. Thankyou for listeningThankyou for listening Follow us on twitter - @ljinteractive Visit our website – www.ljinteractive.com E-mail us - [email_address] Phone us - 01993 880 929 Visit us in Long Hanborough.
Editor's Notes
- #2 Digital publishing - What's it all about? - Is there a market for it and should we be interested in it. - What will it mean to publishers? This morning I will go through - What is happening in the market and whats the potential for digital product - Does the advent of digital products such as ebooks change what a publisher should be doing? - Review of the technologies and opportunities - How can we sell digital products? Don't be afraid to ask questions, we will try our best to answer them!
- #3 We will go into more detail about what are enhanced ebooks and apps later on and show some samples We are mostly talking about re-using book content This could be something you do yourselves or it could be licensing your content for someone else to create digital products from – in a similar way to you selling or licensing the rights of a book in different languages
- #4 I am going to give you a bit of background to what I think the digital market is worth to publishers … so you can take a view on whether you think it is important.
- #5 First of all as we know the market for printed books is going through a tough time. This is a mixture of problems on the high street and reading behaviour I haven’t seen any projections to suggest book sales will bounce back
- #6 General outlook and predictions seem to be fairly consistent … shows a significant rise in the last couple of years … forecasting around 25% of publishing revenue to come from digital by 2015
- #7 Seems to be a similar story from the larger publishers … around 5-10% now … increasing to 20-50% by 2015
- #8 Pressure from authors to make titles available digitally Seems to be some growing pressure from authors who are frustrated by the lack of progress on getting their titles into digital formats. Amazon and other e-book publishers including Rosetta Books are approaching UK agents and authors to buy backlist e-book rights, with Rosetta favouring an exclusive Amazon deal as part of the package. Random House took Rosetta Books to court and the Court has concluded that Random House is not the beneficial owner of the right to publish the eight works at issue as ebooks based on their existing contracts.
- #9 Growing Self publishing market … encouraged by people like Amazon! " The Authors Guild " ;- July 26, 2010. quote [[ We don't know the details of the Odyssey-Amazon agreement, but we can make some informed guesses. The agreement is most likely under the agency model, with Amazon paying Odyssey 70% of the retail price of the books. Wylie and Odyssey are together taking a typical agent's commission as compensation: 10 or 15% of the 70% received from Amazon. In round figures, this means that the author receives 60 to 63% of the retail price of the book. For comparison, a typical contract with a traditional publisher pays e-book royalties of 25% of net proceeds. If the e-book is sold under the agency model, the author's share is 25% of 70%, or 17.5% of the retail price of the book. After the agent's commission, the author receives roughly 15 to 16% of the retail price of the book. ]] end quote . Current contracts assign e-book rights to the (printed version ) publisher - and surely that's for the author and his agent to decide..
- #12 Interesting research by Nielsen in the USA Ipads and e-readers appear surprisingly high in the list
- #13 41% of people prefer paper … there isn't much that will convert these people to buying ebooks unless there is a real usp or advantage offered over the printed page The other percentages will come down in time … as the price of technology falls … devices improve … functionality improves As we can see the price of e-readers has steadily fallen over the last couple of years.
- #17 Hopefully, you can see that there is a growing customer base out there for digital product. Now I will look at what this means to publishers Firstly what are the pressures on publisher to head off into the digital world Secondly what does this actually mean to the role of a publisher
- #18 Being a publisher isn't about printing its about the creation of the product and selling it to the reader.
- #21 Some of these can be products that we sell or as we will cover later some of these can be marketing tools or introductions to full or printed products. … hand over to Liz now who will take you through some examples of digital products
- #24 Unfortunately, today, most commercial eBooks are no more than exact replicas of the print version. Rather than simply outsourcing the conversion of finished book pdf files to eBooks, publishers should be revising the design of the book to work better as a digital product. This means they need to get their editorial and design teams to really grasp the issues and opportunities for eBooks and what new technology can offer, for example, standard contents pages and page numbers can probably be dropped and new navigation systems and cross book links could be added. An interesting question is “How can publishers develop the eBook to offer an enhanced book reading experience?” This then raises the questions “Would offering enhanced features mean publishers could charge more for the product in the same way as the film industry now offer special edition DVD’s with extra features at a premium price?”, and “Would readers realistically pay more for these enhanced features?”