Poland’s e-book market grows

Poland’s e-book market is to be worth PLN 60 million this year, 50 percent more than in 2013 (PLN 40 million), Polish Radio reported referring to report by sector company Virtualo. “That was a very good year on the e-book market. New customers appeared and the amount of electronic books in distribution increased,” Martyna Bednarczyk from Virtualo said. There are as many as 37,000 e-books on the Polish market and it amounts to 3 percent of the entire book market in Poland. Nevertheless, the experts believe that the segment may expand to encompass 20 percent of the book market in the future. The biggest e-book markets in Europe are the British and the German ones.