Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chmielewska, В.

Titel

E-books market in Poland. A Few good men’s passion in a non-reading society

Ist Teil von

• Bibliosfera : zhurnal po bibliotekovedenii͡u︡, bibliografovedenii͡u︡, knigovedenii͡u︡ i informatike, 2020-04 (1), p.93-101

Ort / Verlag

Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, State Public Scientific Technological Library

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Universal Database of Russian Library and Information Sciences Publications

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The article’s aim is to give an overview of the e-books market in Poland, including some issues from the history and perspectives of its future development; to reveal the role of authors and bloggers in popularizing e-books and e-reading; to elucidate how preferences of Poles in e-books reading devices and their attitude towards electronic reading were changing; to analyse problems that publishers and e-books sellers face. The article is based on social interrogation data, works of researchers and Polish book market analysts. The period between 2009–2018 demonstrate the following main characteristics of the market: rapid changes in technology, necessary for creating e-books; changing habits of the Polish readers, the lack of systematized approach to e-books as new media and economic barriers such as rather high VAT rate for digital publications. The paper underlines also the role of individuals and their initiatives in shaping the broadband culture. The basic conclusion of the work is as follows: Polish e-books market is still at the stage of forming its main segments. This work novelty and theoretical significance is in exposing and characterizing tendencies of e-books market evolution in Poland. Practical significance of the work is in acknowledging the necessity of attracting publishers, librarians and researchers to solving problems of creation in the country a constantly renovated database of electronic editions, its accessibility by Pole users.