Books in Spain

Books in Spain

Datamonitor's Books in Spain 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

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* Inform your business decisions

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* Save time carrying out entry-level research

Market Definition

The book publishing industry comprises publishers of academic, professional, general and other trade (fictions, non-fiction etc) books. This industry excludes magazines or newspaper publishing. Market value refers to the domestic sales of books only at the retail sales price (RSP). Any currency conversions used in this report are at the 2007 constant annual average exchange rate.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.

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

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

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

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 13
5.3 Supplier Power 14
5.4 New Entrants 15
5.5 Substitutes 17
5.6 Rivalry 18
CHAPTER 6 Leading Companies 19
6.1 Grupo Planeta 19
6.2 RCS Media Group SpA 20
6.3 Lagardere SCA 23
CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts 26
7.1 Market Value Forecast 26
CHAPTER 8 Demographics 27
CHAPTER 9 Appendix 29
9.1 Methodology 29
9.2 Industry Associations 30
9.3 Related Datamonitor Research 30

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Spain Books Market Value: $ billion, 2003-2007 9
Table 2: Spain Books Market Segmentation I: % Share, by Value, 2007 10
Table 3: Spain Books Market Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2007 11
Table 4: Key Facts: Grupo Planeta 19
Table 5: Key Facts: RCS Media Group SpA 20
Table 6: Key Financials: RCS Media Group SpA 22
Table 7: Key Facts: Lagardere SCA 23
Table 8: Key Financials: Lagardere SCA 25
Table 9: Spain Books Market Value Forecast: $ billion, 2007-2012 26
Table 10: Spain Size of Population (million) , 2003-2007 27
Table 11: Spain GDP (Constant 2000 Prices, $ billion), 2003-2007 27
Table 12: Spain Inflation, 2003-2007 27
Table 13: Spain Exchange Rate, 2003 28