Global Books

Global Books

Datamonitor's Global Books industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the books industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and/or segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry’s recent performance and future prospects

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* The leading companies are profiled with supporting key financial metrics

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

* Detailed information is included on market size, measured by value and/or volume

* Five forces scorecards provide an accessible yet in depth view of the market’s competitive landscape

Why you should buy this report

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* Inform your business decisions

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* Save time carrying out entry-level research

Market Definition

The books market includes atlas, dictionaries, encyclopedias, text books, guidebooks, musical scores, maps, fiction and non fiction. All paperback, hardbound books, books sold from internet sites like Amazon are included but e-books are not included. Market value refers to the domestic sales of books only at the retail sales price (RSP).

For the purpose of this report the global figure is deemed to comprise of the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

The Americas comprises Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7
1.1 Market Definition 7
1.2 Research Highlights 7
1.3 Market Analysis 8
CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9
CHAPTER 3 Market Segmentation I 10
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation II 11
CHAPTER 5 Five Forces Analysis 12
5.1 Summary 12
5.2 Buyer Power 14
5.3 Supplier Power 15
5.4 New Entrants 16
5.5 Substitutes 18
5.6 Rivalry 19
CHAPTER 6 Leading Companies 20
6.1 Pearson plc 20
6.2 Bertelsmann AG 25
6.3 Reed Elsevier NV 28
CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts 34
7.1 Market Value Forecast 34
CHAPTER 8 Appendix 35
8.1 Methodology 35
8.2 Industry Associations 36
8.3 Related Datamonitor Research 36

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Global Books Market Value: $ billion, 2004-2008 9
Table 2: Global Books Market Segmentation I: % Share, by Value, 2008 10
Table 3: Global Books Market Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2008 11
Table 4: Key Facts: Pearson plc 20
Table 5: Key Financials: Pearson plc 24
Table 6: Key Facts: Bertelsmann AG 25
Table 7: Key Financials: Bertelsmann AG 27
Table 8: Key Facts: Reed Elsevier NV 28
Table 9: Key Financials: Reed Elsevier NV 33
Table 10: Global Books Market Value Forecast: $ billion, 2008-2013 34