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 |