From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:28:59 -0400

Are you referring to books or journals, Toby?  For books there is a
very strong interest in print.  I don't think your figures (assuming
you are talking about books) are representative of the market as a
whole.

Joe Esposito


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:49 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:09:23 +0000
>
> Many readers prefer print? Judging from our data, I think things are
> changing very fast. This year we'll ship around 300k print editions
> and downloads will be more than 12 million. Demand for print is
> shrinking at around 25% per annum, demand for downloads is growing at
> around 40%. But the revenue per download is dropping fast. I think the
> differences between journal and monograph publishing are getting fewer
> and the challenges becoming more similar.
>
> Toby Green, Head of Publishing, OECD
> www.oecd-ilibrary.org