Abstract
This paper gives an outline of e-book business in Croatia, another European small language market, based on surveys of seven mayor e-book distributors conducted in February 2013 and February 2014. The research included collecting web catalogues by various e-book distributors and an interview with their representatives, asking them to confirm the established number of e-books. After data collection, researchers analysed and presented the exact number of unique e-book titles, publisher’s participation, types of e-book formats and their prices. The findings show that there are 1.654 unique e-book titles by 55 publishers currently available on seven main platforms, the most popular e-book format is EPUB (55%), while the average retail price is EUR 5,86.
Highlights
The beginnings of the Croatian e-book market date back to the mid-1990s, when a few people with some publishing experience formed a partnership with established publishing companies in order to digitize their materials, or to republish copyright-free material and build their own lists
The 2014 study has shown that four main commercial distributors (Planet9, Vip eBookstore, TookBook and eLibrika) offer 2,720 e-books in Croatian
It is important to note the high growth rate in commercial platforms (Vip, Took Book, Planet9, eLibrika), while growth is much slower in those with free access, which could be a sign of acceleration in Croatian e-book business
Summary
The beginnings of the Croatian e-book market date back to the mid-1990s, when a few people with some publishing experience formed a partnership with established publishing companies in order to digitize their materials, or to republish copyright-free material and build their own lists In both cases they would change the format and offer compact discs instead of printed books. Despite being very small in scope (today they offer 149 titles), they managed to get 760,000 downloads in total, and more than 70,000 for the Croatian translation of Noam Chomsky’s works on media, propaganda and systems These initial efforts 55 did not have a significant impact on the development of e-book publishing
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
