Market Intelligence for the Professional Publishing Industry
November 26, 2010
In the digital publishing age a balance needs to be created between the customers' desire for immediate accessability at any time to enriched text (enhanced with audio, video, three-dimensional objects, full text searching, note taking, etc) and "...publishers’ needs for financial self-sustainability."We are at the age where researchers can access works in the form of e-books that are accessable at any time and any place and never go out of print!
This is heavy neatness to the extreme. Publishing and content are moving at warp speed!
Simba Information, publishing and media intelligence and analysis, has outlined a report that exemplifies the ongoing depth of analysis required in this transition time in the publishing industry:
Professional Publishing in the Digital Age: E-Books in Libraries
Electronic books offer creative possibilities for expanding access as well as changing learning behavior and academic research. Content can always be accessible, regardless of time or place, to be read on PCs or on portable book readers. Books need never go out of print, and new editions can be easily created. One can carry several titles at once on a portable reader and, over time, build a personal library.
Professional Publishing in the Digital Age: E-Books in Libraries examines how libraries are turning to e-books to strike a balance between patrons’ demands for openness and convenience and publishers’ needs for financial self-sustainability.
Features such as full text searching, changeable font size, mark-up, citation creation, and note taking are enhancing usability. Print text can be integrated with multi-dimensional objects, sound, and film to create a whole new kind of monographic work.
The report examines questions such as:
- What happens to e-book usage when barriers to inconvenience are removed?
- When patrons can have easy access to scholarly e-books, what does their usage look like and what does this predict for the future of these types of resources?
- Are these innovative models more or less fiscally sound than their traditional counterparts?
- What will make e-books a viable part of academic library collections?
- What features, rights, business models, hardware and software standards are needed to meet the goals of large academic library systems to support open scholarly exchange?
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Posted by John R.. Posted In : digital publishing
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