EBooks: changing the publishing industry, PwC

Range of products for 

eReaders: Different from one 

country to another 

In America, the choice of electronic 

publishing products for eReaders is much 

larger than is the case in other countries: 

Amazon is offering 132 newspapers and 40 

periodicals for its Kindle as a subscription 

or single issue. Barnes & Noble has 

announced to expand the range of offered 

newspapers and periodicals for its Nook 

with a colored screen.  

However, the search for specially processed 

digital newspapers and magazines for 

electronic readers in European countries 

has so far been in vain. And for a good 

reason: The devices available on the 

European market do not have mobile 

access, which makes it difficult to

download subscriptions to newspapers 

and periodicals onto the device. In 

addition, eReaders are scarcely suitable 

for newspapers and even less suitable 

for periodicals because of their small 

size, their monochrome displays, and the 

limited facility for displaying images and 

graphics.