Investigating Ebook Publication in Iran and its use Consume Ebooks

In reference to the performance of Ebooks in enriching youth leisure time, it is relevant to study Ebook publication in Iran and how young people use Ebooks through internet. This article, first, by adopting a documentary method in parallel with a case study, explains how Ebook publishing evolved from printing to virtual media and which important obstacles restricted this process.Then, through conducting a survey, We studide how young people in Iran consume and exploit Ebooks. Eventually the article analyzes survey results in a comparative manner with global patterns. The sample, in the survey section, has been selected via snowball method. Questionnaire has been adopted from Global eBook Monitor, 10 Country Comparison which conducted by Bowker Market Research, with some changes in reference to Iranian society.The study shows that in spite of advances in designing a free flow format for Persian digital books, industrial digital publishing will not realize in a near future -not being grounded in a strong Ebook market. In this ragard variables like reading culture, public library infrastructure, commodity relationships, and weak publicationregulations, are responsible. However there are advantages, especially as a result of western sanctions against Iran, that encourage digitalizing book publishing industry. Publishing corporations think security regulations is the landmark issue that restricts digitalizing trends. Iranian users are more interested in professional issues and free books. However they display unstable behavior and keep changing their direction to different aspects of the subject.