The U.S. bookstore chain, Borders, announced its bankruptcy. 674 shops and more than 19,000 employees are doomed to disappear, according to the correspondent of La Vanguardia in New York, the cause is the impact that the Internet is taking place in the book industry and the limited adaptation that these libraries have been faced with escalating e-book sales in the network, but long ago came to have problems of cost and financial structure. Amazon has already acknowledged
more sales of e-books for your Kindle via its platform for physical books. BORDERS
had established an agreement that ended cannibalizing AMAZON. U.S. bookstores like Barnes and Noble, have opted to create their own virtual platform and until own e-book reader to adapt to the new digital reality, but this has not overlooked that have to close an establishment, the last in New York.
Along with the great panorma are increasing small independent bookstores, many of them especilaizadas. Desapareciron
Like the music megastores, it now seems that the danger of books.
However, here in Spain, the phenomenon is different. We just know the purchase of the libraries BERTRAND BERTELSMANN group, by the PLANET BOOK HOUSE. In this operation
BOOK HOUSE 8 new libraries will have to complete a total of 37, distributed throughout national.
is true that size is not comparable with the U.S. and in Spain fail to grow sales of e-books, while in the U.S. now exceed 10% of the total estimate that in 2015, given the sales progression tablets, smartcoms and readers, digital book market is about 50%.
Libranda, the largest distribution platform for e-books, is measuring the model might be, because after the first months of operation, are still insufficient and complex channels to legally download a book. Prices are more affordable than those of paper books though are burdened with taxes of 18%, but still have not closed the digital rights to allow many authors to have a catalog as vast as the physical book.
Many libraries have not adopted the sale of e-books even though they offered Libranda hitch your gateway.
seems that the U.S. trend will eventually come to our country, meanwhile do not know if protectionism in the sector in Spain, can lead to occasional failure such as Borders. It would be worthwhile to be prepared and follow closely the needs of new readers.
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