Abstract
Developments in information and communication technologies have led to significant changes all over the world. With the digitalization process information has begun to turn from analogue to digital media, in the meantime global book publishing industry has taken steps from print publishing into electronic publishing. With the emergence of electronic book, book publishing sector started to gain a different meaning and has gained the characteristics of being a brand-new industry. The aim of the research is giving support to improve e-book publishing sector in Turkey detecting current issues and providing information to create solutions. Making a detailed literature survey the research, firstly, investigates and compares the development of the ebook publishing industry in Turkey and in the world through the process of digitalization. And secondly, using qualitative and quantitative research methods it has been questioning the issues of the digitalization of the publishing sector in Turkey and conducting the preferences of the Turkish readers on e-books.
Highlights
IntroductionE-book, in simple terms a book which provides access to readers the contents of any book in electronic form (Hawkins, 2000)
With the widespread use of the Internet and establishment of faster and more versatile communication medium has led to information and communication technologies develop further (Göker, 2009; Önder, 2010).With the development and widespread use of the Internet, e-books have gained importance and books reach to readers over different mediums like web and e-book reader devices
When the data of the book industry is analyzed especially in the first six of the biggest book industry in the world (US, Britain, Germany, France, Japan, China) it has been detected that it has a much larger ratio compared to other countries
Summary
E-book, in simple terms a book which provides access to readers the contents of any book in electronic form (Hawkins, 2000). They are basically high-tech reading tablets that hold the equivalent of thousands of paper pages. E-books are new numeric book forms which are designed to be read with computers or portable e-book readers, and which provide new facilities in addition to having all the features of printed books but not being printed on papers. Assessing in this perspective, e-books associate with a specially designed portable hardware combination (Morgan, 1999; Rukancı and Anameriç, 2003)
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