eLearningworld News from EU While growth of the eBook-market in US and Canada is stabilising on a mature level the European eBook-market that is lagging far behind, e.g. because of VAT-rules, is showing promising growth, research shows. In Italy 4.5 million people read at least one eBook during the last …
eLearningworld News from UK and World trends Talk Business Magazine picks eBooks as a one of the most important content marketing trends during 2016. eLearningworld share this view since eBooks could be a powerful branding engine to boost engagement of your organisation and its products and services. In addition, in …
eLearningworld News from Albania Through the new Vodafone Books application for Android and iOS people in Albania can now read and download ebooks with one click. The library’s bookshelves include both Albanian and foreign literature and the project is a co-operation between Vodafone and the local publishing house Dituria. The …
eLearningworld’s Weekly Review Carlos Moedas, EU Research Commissioner, claimed this week that the public should have open access to government funded research. He stresses that science journal publishing companies should reshape their business models to fit an open access system. Moedas said: “There is a revolution happening in the way …
eLearningworld News from the World Windows Store offers apps within most areas, but in one vital area it is surprisingly empty: eBooks. While Google Play and Apple Appstore are strong players within this field and compete with Amazon and Barnes Noble etc. Window’s still struggling with eBooks. However, its new …
eLearningworld News from Germany The German airline company Lufthansa partner with Sobook to offer an in-flight eBookstore on their long haul flights. The store opens in 2016 as a part of the entertainment-offer where the passengers will able to buy streaming books with their smartphones and tablets. The service will …
eLearningworld News from the Netherlands Google has to expose people, including IP-address, home address, names, emails and bank account that are selling pirated ebooks in the Google Play store. This is the verdict of Hague District Court after the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN filed a case against Google. Initially BREIN …
eLearningworld News from Norway The Norwegian Government proposes 0%VAT on digital media in its budget proposal. The cost would be around €37 million. Printed media including books is today free from VAT in Norway, while digital media pays 25% VAT. With the new proposal the government expects a more dynamic …
eLearningworld News from EU The new Eurobarometer “Cross-border access to online content” shows that the demand to use online service for digital content cross borders in the EU is high, especially in younger generations. Those aged 15-24 65% found this important and the group aged 25-39 50%, while the group …
Digitalization is transforming the book publishing industry. The days are gone when the author had to rely on that a publishing house would accept his or her work. Since the walls to the book market were too high to be entered in any other way. The publisher took care of …
