A Basketful Of Book Publishing Predictions

I came upon these forecasts for publishing over at The Idea Logical Blog and The Huffington Post: A Baker's Dozen Predictions For 2010, and 10 More Book Publishing Predictions. An excerpt:

E-book sales will grow exponentially, with the proliferation of new devices and applications for reading on smartphones, etc... Within five years, half of all reading will be done electronically.

As the Boomers lose their eyesight and their children become teenagers, demographics will favor books for young adults over books for adults. This is also the generation most likely to embrace a variety of online and offline formats, without feeling the need to choose one over another.

These companies will continue to focus more resources on fewer titles, using their strengths as large-scale marketers and distributors to publish brand-names. Title count at the largest houses could drop by as much as fifty percent over the next five years.

At least one major book will have several different enhanced ebook editions.

Thanks to digital, there is no minimum length for a book anymore.

Ebooks will require a new industry directory (and it won’t be printed.)

Ebooks become significant revenue contributors for many titles.

In the digital world, geographical territories will be found not to make much sense.

Click on the above links to read all the predictions.