How much of the future is digital; are subscription services the future; is the publishing economy distorted by imbalanced competition? The talk will look at some of the big questions facing global publishing and how they might play out. The presentation was given by Richard Mollet, CEO of UK Publishing Association at Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Professional Program 2015. It was part of the ADIBF Academy Certificate Future Proof Publisher 2015.

1. INTERNATIONAL TRENDS AND
THE FUTURE OF PUBLISHING
Richard Mollet

2. some brief statistics
£4.3 bn book and journal revenue
35% from digital
£3.3bn book sales revenue
17% from digital – up 11% in 2014
37% of fiction bought as ebook
24% of academic text-books bought digitally
Children’s fastest growing digital sector (36%)
44% of revenue from export

3. Digitisation
Globalisation

4. Digitisation
Globalisation
Curation
Data and
Privacy
Copyright
Debate
Internet Silos
Rise of
China
Demand for
Education

13. to conclude…
two “mega trends” of digitisation and
globalisation and the major drivers
they give rise to important sub-trends,
particularly around copyright and curation
overall publishing will see a positive impact from
these developments

14. Thank you!
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