Over the last decade many have questioned the disruptive potential of electronic media to displace the traditional printed book, but with sales of Amazon's Kindle device now being counted in the millions and the European launch of Apple's ipad with inclusive bookshop, e-books are set to pose a significant challenge to the market for paper books in the years ahead.
This new report investigates the opportunities and threats for paper as a substrate for book printing. In particular, to assess the extent to which paper books will be superceded by e-based alternatives, grade substitution, the impact of wider social issues and the consequences for paper suppliers and the sector in the medium to long term.
What do you get?
- The key global markets broken down by end users in the designated product sectors.
- Primary research with an emphasis on qualitative data
- Book market trends
- Interviews with key paper manufacturers and merchants
Executive summary
Abbreviations and acronyms
Introduction
- Objective
- Scope
- Methodology
- Book market trends
- How the book business model is changing
- Paper trends in book printing
- Digitalisation
- Impact of the internet
- The impact of the ebook
- Declining book readership
- Asian print competition
- Book Smithers Piracy
- Used books
- Primary research highlights
- Supply chain interviews
- Paper selection criteria
- Paper supplier feedback
- Printers and print oems
- Libraries
- Retailers
- Discussion group feedback
- Focus group
- Ipex discussion forum
- Book paper demand
- The market and projected demand
- Future market demand
- Chinese exports
Appendix 1: book paper interviews
- Paper manufacturers and merchants
- Arctic paper SA
- Hellefoss
- Holmen paper hallsta
- Inapa group
- Paper management services (part of antalis mcnaughton)
- Robert horne
- Sappi fine paper europe
- Upm - kymmene stracel mill, france
- Printers & print oems
- Baro press
- Clays limited
- Cpi clausen & bosse
- Cpi france
- Cpi koninklijke wöhrmann
- Océ
- Rotolito lombarda, s.p.a.
- Publishers
- Albin michel (les editions
- Blackwell publishing limited
- Buch bücher gmbh
- De agostini editore
- Edizioni della vigna
- Éditions de la table ronde (éditions gallimard)
- Egmont
- Hachette book group (hbg) france
- Lexis nexis
- Litres.ru
- Macmillan
- The national gallery company
- Osprey publishing
- Penguin
- Prisa
- Reed elsevier
- Elsevier
- Random house mondadori (rhm)
- Uitgeverij de bezige bij
- Libraries
- Biblioteca nacional de espana
- Biblioteca nazionale centrale di roma
- Maria curie sklowdowski university lublin
- Openbare bibliotheek amsterdam
- Syndicat de la librairie française (slf)
- Retailers
- A.b.e. Marketing
- Book.net
- La feltrinelli editore (giangiacomo)
- Librería diógenes
- Speedup
- Waterstones
- W & g foyle ltd
Appendix 2: focus group transcript
Appendix 3: 2010 conference discussions
- 20 may 2010, ipex
- June 2010 interquest book conference
- Www.futureofthebook.com
Appendix 4: published interviews
- Www. Lepoint.fr
- Www.thebookseller.com
Appendix 5: global and regional book paper
- Demand for the three scenarios
- World
- North america
- Asia pacific
- Latin america
- Middle east & africa
Appendix 6: book paper demand for the three
- Scenarios - country specific
- Scenario 1
- Scenario 2
- Scenario 3
Appendix 7: chinese book exports