Designing a Model for Policy Making in Developing E-book Industry in Iran

The main purpose of this paper is designing a model for policy making in developing      e-book industry. In this research, a qualitative approach based on grounded theory is applied. The statistical population of the pundits in this field includes the cultural policy makers, the experts and managers in electronic book industry and the connected fields who were interviewed via Theoretical sampling. From the twelfth interview on, a repetition in data was noticed, i.e. no new concept was identified, however, in order to achieve the necessary accuracy and certainty, sixteen people were interviewed. On the basis of findings, 508 concepts were identified, modified into 69 saturated concepts, and finally categorized into 19 subcategories in axial coding. The most important factor in a policy making model and specifically this field in Iran, is the content management system.