Product Selection (eBooks 1: Business Models and Strategy)

General

	Trade	Higher Ed	Reference	STM
Rights	Some older contracts with authors didn't contemplate this right or establish a royalty rate.	Seldom an author rights issue Generally a third-party rights issue	Issues with original rights holders	All author contracts include eRights to book content
Subjects	Fiction General Interest Non Fiction Business Children's Books	Sciences Business Skills-based Humanities problematic because of 3rd party rights	Most subjects covered	Architecture & Design Behavioral Science Biomedical & Life Science Business & Economics Chemistry & Material Science Computer Science Earth & Environmental Science Engineering Humanities, Social Science, & Law Mathematics Medicine Physics & Astronomy Professional Computing & Web Design
Rendering issues	Few issues because content is reflowable	Complex layout Specialized notation	Double-byte fonts for foreign and ancient languages	Equations or calculations created using subject-specific software (ex. Mathcad)
Copyright years	2006-current			2005-current

Rights - The author of a book gives the publisher permission to create and sell an electronic version of his/her body of work. Publishers enter into contracts with authors, stipulating whether the publisher has the electronic rights to a work, and how royalty is calculated. Older contracts may not have taken electronic rights into consideration.
Subjects - The subject portfolios publishers have created that target their readers' predominant areas of interest.
Rendering issues - The visualization of specialized content (ex. foreign languages, equations) may be difficult due to their inherent differences from usual content types.
Copyright years - The years for which the planned portfolio of books in print are simultaneously made into eBooks.