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Book publishing has entered a period of considerable turbulence. There is considerable uncertainty about the future and what it holds. Physical bookstores are in trouble and the digital world favours the larger players such as Amazon, Apple and Google.

In this book, Angus Phillips examine the themes that are shaping the future of the publishing industry and how we consume content. Overall themes include:

• the convergence of different media
• the expectations of consumers that content should be free
• the increasing dominance of digital formats
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This is an exciting period for the book, a time of innovation, experimentation, and change. It is also a time of considerable fear within the book industry as it adjusts to changes in how books are created and consumed. The movement to digital has been taking place for some time, but with consumer books experiencing the transition, the effects of digitization can be clearly seen to everybody.

In Turning the Page Angus Phillips analyses the fundamental drivers of the book publishing industry - authorship, readership, and copyright - and examines the effects of digital...