Canada driving forces behind e-book production 2014-2017

Reasons for publishing companies to develop e-books in Canada from 2014 to 2017
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The data displays the reasons why publishing companies are producing e-books in Canada from 2014 to 2017. In 2017, it was found that 80% of publishing companies stated they were producing e-books in order to increase sales.

Increase sales 77 88 80 80
Customer demand 63 70 73 74
Accessibility 55 72 73 70
Author expectations 42 58 51 52
Mechanism to lower costs 5 12 9 8
Testing a different production method 15 12 13 6
Other 3 6