< Key Hightlight >

Electronic books are an increasingly important segment for scholarly and professional publishers. E-books offer creative possibilities for expanding access as well as changing learning behavior and academic research. Content can always be accessible, regardless of time or place, to be read on PCs or on portable book readers. Books need never go out of print, and new editions can be easily created.

Scholarly & Professional E-Book Publishing 2020-2024 provides an overview and financial outlook for the global scholarly and professional e-book publishing markets based on specific research and analysis of the leading competitors’ performance. Company performance is projected through 2020. The overall market is divided into law, science and technology, medical, social science and humanities and business publishing. Market categories are projected through 2024.

Scholarly & Professional E-Book Publishing 2020-2024 contains separate chapters covering the market, key competitors, and trends and forecast that include:

• Simba’s exclusive analysis of market size and structure
• Revenue and market share rankings of 10 leading global publishers
• Profiles of the five leading e-book aggregators
• Geographic market sizing for the four major regional markets: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World
• Simba’s exclusive market projections to 2024 by subject area and more.

Whether your focus is law, business, STM or social sciences and humanities, you can trust Scholarly & Professional E-Book Publishing 2020-2024 to provide the inside intelligence you need to evaluate growth potential, understand trends affecting the industry, and size up the competition worldwide. Examples of some of the trends covered include:

• Global economic forecasts and the impact of COVID-19
• Key differences between scholarly professional e-books and trade e-books
• Signs of maturity in the e-books market
• Cooperation among publishers and between publishers and aggregators
• Mobile and tablet usage has brought e-books into new settings
• Publishers of all sizes turn to collections and the “journalization” of books
• Evolving business models; emergence of Open Access books.

Scholarly & Professional E-Book Publishing 2020-2024 is an essential tool for publishing executives, M&A advisors, market analysts, and industry consultants who need to understand the business strategies driving the explosion in scholarly professional e-book publishing.

Simba’s e-book market figures are global in scope. It’s a global market. If you’re competing in one or all of these segments, the competition does not conform to lines on a map. This report, and the others in the series, is produced to help executives make decisions in this environment.