The Global eBook Report 2017 is highlighting, and measuring the relevant international trends:

- Tracking main market developments and the diversity of relevant drivers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia;

- The segmentation of book markets in print and digital;

- European ebook markets in great and previously unavailable detail, based on in depth data provided by leading distributors;

- Ebooks in the context of the overall transformation in international publishing;

- Global players, and their impact on re-shaping the international business of books.

By 2017, ebooks are so much more than yet another format and edition of printed books. Instead, in a global perspective, with in depth data analysis allow a realistic and precise understanding of how consumer publishing has become a highly diverse and segmented business, with hugely different developments in the big English language countries, in continental Europe and in emerging economies.