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Global Professional & Scholarly E-Book Publishing

Publisher Freedonia Focus Reports
Published May 31, 2025
Length 27 Pages
SKU # FFO20198022

Description

This report forecasts to 2029 global professional and scholarly e-book publishing revenues by segment in US dollars. Segments include: scientific and technical, medical, legal, business, and social science and humanities.

To illustrate historical trends, world and segment revenues are provided for 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Major world regions are also segmented for 2024 by North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and rest of world.

E-books are defined as a version of a literary work that is rendered, stored, distributed and read in digital form. This report is specifically focused on scholarly monographs, professional reference and training, and upper level university textbook publishing. Subject matter includes scientific, technical and medical (STM), the social sciences and the humanities (SSH), law, and business.

This report considers digital titles delivered as PDF downloads, online access, or another e-book format. Some of these titles have a print analog that is available for sale, while others are only available in electronic form.

Digital delivery is not limited to e-readers, as is the case in trade publishing, but includes collections that are large parts of library e-book use. Also included are parts of databases that contain or are derived from enriched versions of books, such as Knovel in engineering.

Many health science books are scattered throughout general e-book vendors’ collections, such as EBSCOhost and Ebook Central. Others are available on platforms that require subscriptions, such as ClinicalKey (Elsevier), the STAT!Ref (TDS Health) medical database, or AccessMedicine (McGraw Hill).

Some publishers, such as Elsevier on ScienceDirect or Springer Nature on SpringerLink, make e-books available for purchase via their flagship platforms. Further, many reference platforms offer e-book purchase options, such as Books@Ovid (Wolters Kluwer).

All revenue at the publisher level is included, whether from one-off sales, subscription sales, or licensing.

Other various topics, including profiles of pertinent leading companies, are covered in this report. A full outline of report items by page is available in the Table of Contents.

Related NAICS Codes:

  • 323117 Books Printing
  • 424920 Book, Periodical, and Newspaper Merchant Wholesalers
  • 451211 Book Stores
  • 511130 Book Publishers
  • 512110 Motion Picture and Video Production
  • 611710 Educational Support Services

Table of Contents

27 Pages
HIGHLIGHTS
GLOBAL REVENUE OVERVIEW & FORECASTS
Scientific & Technical
Medical
Legal
Business
Social Sciences & Humanities
REGIONAL SEGMENTATION & FORECASTS
Definitions by Geography
North America
Europe
Asia/Pacific
Rest of World
English vs. Local Language Publishing
Currency Effects
INDUSTRY STRUCTURE
Leading Competitors
ABOUT THIS REPORT
Sources
Industry Codes
Resources
LIST OF TABLES & FIGURES
Figure 1 | Global Professional & Scholarly E-Book Publishing Market Outlook, 2024 – 2029
Figure 2 | Global Professional & Scholarly E-Book Publishing Revenues by Segment, 2024 & 2029 (US$ mil)
Table 1 | Global Professional & Scholarly E-Book Publishing Revenues by Segment; 2022 – 2024, 2029 (US$ mil)
Figure 3 | Global Professional & Scholarly E-Book Publishing Revenues by Segment, 2024 & 2029 (%)
Figure 4 | Global Professional & Scholarly E-Book Publishing Revenues by Region, 2024 (%)
Table 2 | Leading Professional & Scholarly E-Book Publishers, 2023 & 2024 (US$ mil)
Table 3 | NAICS & SIC Codes Related to Professional & Scholarly E-Book Publishing

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