If 2013 was the year that trade publishers finally learned to stop worrying and love the ebook, 2014 could go down as the year when the publishing industry started doing interesting things with digital reading. While ebooks' share of the total book market has risen more slowly than many expected, we've started to see real innovation in the ways that ebooks are delivered to and consumed by readers.
As The Economist observed in its magisterial overview of the modern publishing industry a couple of months ago, the book itself might not be changing much, but the book business is changing almost beyond recognition. So as we look towards a world in which publishing innovation increasingly focuses on business models over book apps, here are our own predictions for the future of trade publishing in 2015.