subject: Built Platforms Of All The Books All Make Profit Model Remains Uncertain - Ebook - Printing Industry [print this page] Research Center under the Qing dynasties on China Electronic Book in the first quarter report shows the first quarter of this year, China's e-reader market sales reached 249,100. Kingship of which e-reader sales of about 164,500, accounting for as high as 66.04%. Although the end products Sell The absolute leading edge, but still Hanwang Technology believes that the current e-book market, for-profit model is still not clear.
Industry analysts believe that once the domestic e-book profit model may be a class of the Amazon model, that is, market-reader terminal, with content providers Cooperation Available for download platform for readers to receive both the download fee, while the operators operate only as a channel, does not participate in the bonus e-book download. Recently, Hanwang Technology and Culture book signing of a copyright the project agreement to open up the digital rights bottlenecks seem that this mode of distribution.
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It is understood that e-book industry has been on the middle reaches of the enterprise in Taiwan and abroad, dominated the competition so the domestic market mainly in the terminal, operations and content industries downstream link. Chain of related companies have expressed enthusiasm for the books.
Market for e-books in full swing, Hanwang Technology vice president, secretaries to directorate Zhu Deyong commented, "We actually are still exploring." For example, there are a lot of traditional publishing group announced their own hands a large number of digital resources, but so far not begun to profit, mainly because we are still exploring profit models.
"We are actually going on, and all make their own" Zhu Deyong description, company e-book content download the establishment of a Network Download platform, and pricing will be delivered to the business content resources, and resource provider to download charges are divided into 28. Operators receive the normal Communicate Costs. Zhu Deyong said: "Our platform is like shopping malls, like the counters, for Management , Available for download, while preventing piracy. And operators do not conflict with the normal fee. "
It is Zhu Deyong introduced Hanwang network download platform has started to income, although not profitable, or Zhu Deyong demonstrate confidence in the platform. Kingship compared with other businesses currently already has three advantages: products, channels and brands. He said, for example last year, sales of electronic readers up to 300,000, on this basis, the Kingship initially established a "pre-installed + download" content delivery model.
Had text message rumors Kingship and Society book signing about 25 million books, digital rights, and Hanwang the cooperation agreement with the text book, whether the exclusive digital rights? Text book Society, said that CA is the number of publishing companies with a platform between. Platform for all in need and to meet the requirements of digital publishing businesses are open. At present, the number of other publishing companies to contact them and hope to establish cooperation. Text book mentioned collaboration, digital publishing rights are not exclusive. Zhu Deyong said the specific numbers out of the exclusive rights to consultation, but the costs will naturally increase.
