Polish textbooks market - short overview
About the company
Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne SA is one of the largest Polish book publishing house. It specialises in the publishing of books for primary schools and junior and senior high schools, but offers also supplementary books for students and teachers, teaching methodology journals, encyclopaedias, school dictionaries, works on psychology and pedagogy, as well as multimedia resources. WSiP has been publishing textbooks for several decades. It is the only Polish educational publisher which offers the full range of general education textbooks for all subjects, forms and schools, from kindergarten to senior high schools. WSiP shares are floated on Warsaw Stock Exchange. For more information please visit WSiP web page
Shrinking market
According to different sources polish textbook market is worth from 700 to 900 m. PLN (180-240 m. Euro). It is also most profitable book market segment, mainly because of high circulations and stable, however, slightly decreasing demand. At the same time, there is common opinion that textbooks are too expensive. Hard to deny that fact comparing average costs of set of book for beginners in amount of 140 PLN to polish salary level. Last wave of disapprobation of high costs of polish textbooks comes with new elections and new Ministry of Education. He is pushing really hard get down prices of polish textbooks.
Population of Poland (similarly to many European countries) is getting older. It means that fewer and fewer children are born. For companies operating on such market it means only one - potential market of polish textbooks is shrinking. Please look at the graph below.
Graph presents polish population in age between 3 and 16.
More information about population of Poland
What influance may it have to production of textbook? Will it facilitate and accelerate development of e-learing?
Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne SA is one of the largest Polish book publishing house. It specialises in the publishing of books for primary schools and junior and senior high schools, but offers also supplementary books for students and teachers, teaching methodology journals, encyclopaedias, school dictionaries, works on psychology and pedagogy, as well as multimedia resources. WSiP has been publishing textbooks for several decades. It is the only Polish educational publisher which offers the full range of general education textbooks for all subjects, forms and schools, from kindergarten to senior high schools. WSiP shares are floated on Warsaw Stock Exchange. For more information please visit WSiP web page
Shrinking market
According to different sources polish textbook market is worth from 700 to 900 m. PLN (180-240 m. Euro). It is also most profitable book market segment, mainly because of high circulations and stable, however, slightly decreasing demand. At the same time, there is common opinion that textbooks are too expensive. Hard to deny that fact comparing average costs of set of book for beginners in amount of 140 PLN to polish salary level. Last wave of disapprobation of high costs of polish textbooks comes with new elections and new Ministry of Education. He is pushing really hard get down prices of polish textbooks.
Population of Poland (similarly to many European countries) is getting older. It means that fewer and fewer children are born. For companies operating on such market it means only one - potential market of polish textbooks is shrinking. Please look at the graph below.
Graph presents polish population in age between 3 and 16.
More information about population of Poland
What influance may it have to production of textbook? Will it facilitate and accelerate development of e-learing?
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Interesting website with a lot of resources and detailed explanations.
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