In recent days they have indicated various reports on the decline of the ebook market. Although a few years ago everyone claimed that ebooks and eReaders are the future, the truth is that the ebook and eReader during 2016 compared to 2015 and 2014 has lost steam and their sales have dropped considerablyWe are not saying that its growth has stopped but that there are losses.
This has been very significant for many and some warn that we are facing the decline of the ebook and the eReader. And they may be right if things stick.
The drop in ebook and eReader sales is mainly due to several factors. The first and most important of these is the price of ebooks and eReaders. In the last few months pocket books are cheaper than ebooks, something that has hurt the digital industry. The appearance of new eReaders more and more expensive has not helped, on the contrary. It has made many prefer paper books to paying more than 200 euros for an eReader.
The decline of ebooks has been caused by the change in prices
Another important factor has been the hardware stoppage that has occurred among eReaders. Currently an eReader from two or three years ago can still compete with a current eReader, but the prices remain, something illogical in any other market and with its negative response.
The quality of the ebooks has not helped in this process. A lots of ebooks are still in the format of a pdf or a doc with your problems for eReaders and your readers. The most unfamiliar with the subject generalize it and become detractors of the format.
These are some of the factors that are helping or collaborating in the decline of ebooks, but seeing these problems, problems that can be solved and corrected Do you really think that the ebook is nearing its end? Do you think that the decline of eReaders will have a solution or will its end be inevitable?
A shame the news, it is clear that an ereader is expensive but in the medium term it is profitable. I bought one last year and, honestly, it is the best money spent of my life. I encourage all readers to buy it.
I think this article is cyclical. I read it every year 😉
I'm not surprised. The evolution of technology in ereaders is not evolving so much that it changes every X year of device. They are implementing options that in my opinion look more like a "gadget" and let's not forget that we, users, only want a device to read books and nothing else. Then comes the problem of ebook prices compared to a printed book, the difference is minimal if not to say that in many cases ... nonexistent. So an ereader becomes profitable in the very long term (if we buy ebook legally), let's say that between an ebook and a paperback there is a difference of 2 euros, and that your ereader costs you 120 euros (to take the example of the paperwhite), you would have to buy 60 books for it to be profitable, looking at the average consumption of books by users, this is 2 years or even 3 years.