Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Master of Arts in Art Economics, Isfahan University of Arts, Iran

2 Department of law; Payame noor University, Iran, PO BOX 19395-3697, Tehran, IRAN,

Abstract

Objective: the aim of the present study reviews the economic position and future identification of the species of the publication, the review of economic and cost-effective possibility to replace e-books instead of paper books, do. Unfortunately, no written research has been written in Iran in the field of production and supply of e-books and the economic position of this industry and its future in Iran. In this study, we intend to analyze the e-book publishing industry in Iran, the economic status and future of such publishing from the perspective of experts and electronic publishers in the country's publishing industry and to know whether this publication has been able as our exchange for paper publishing.

Method: the present article using the analytical and descriptive research methods-enjoying the interviews, writing and research sampling method, based on the non-random sampling procedure is based on the snowball.

Findings: the possibility of replacing the e-book and printed book instead of a frustrated affair likely at least in the paper the current situation, it seems. According to the rating of the electronic publishing industry experts, industrial economic books, frugal to publishers, producers and readers and can reduce the price of the book, reading a new chapter in Iran that it would need to pay attention to the law on the protection of the rights of authors and publishers, the dissemination and promotion of the Book reading in order to raise the per capita rate study, creating the infrastructure of e-publishing and e-publishers is the job security of supply as well as the future of electronic publishing of a bright future and development axes.

Results: according to the results of the study was to investigate the electronic book publishing industry in Iran shows, this industry not to their status or economic status at the international level and not yet a commodity market of electronic books is not entirely up to the needs of consumers.

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