New Thinking for 21st Century Publishers :Emerging Patterns and Evolving Stratagems

Publication subTitle :Emerging Patterns and Evolving Stratagems

Author: Kist   Joost  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 2008

E-ISBN: 9781780632179

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781843344469

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781843344469

Subject: G25 Library Science

Keyword: 信息与知识传播

Language: ENG

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Description

Written by a former vice president of Wolters Kluwer, the leading international publishing group. This authoritative book addresses the compelling question: how will the publishing profession survive and thrive in the 21st century? Publishing companies today find themselves in the midst of a sea change in the nature of the content they create; the modes of its delivery; the converging of content and service; and even in the structure of the publishing industry itself. Today, at the beginning of the 21st century we are witnessing an accelerating change in the transition from traditional printing and printing - and publishing-on-demand to online and wireless delivery of content. One of the questions that will be discussed in this book is whether new electronic publishing technologies can help to structure and organise the publishing industry in this transitional period and assist the book and the other former traditional print publications to find their rightful place in a new dynamic environment. The aim of this books is to provide the reader of a blueprint - a concept for a roadmap - that may guide him or her into the new not so level and even uncharted playing fields of the 21st century. The main themes of the book are: publishing houses have to rethink and reformulate their strategy and tactics in the information chain to recover lost ground and recapture lost positions in the information market; readers and users of information are not all the same but have very different

Chapter

About the author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

A new competitive landscape

A period of transition

The added value of the invention of printing

A concept for a roadmap

1 The past as prologue

Preserving memory

The coming of Homo scribens

The publisher in the Information Age

Enter online and the internet

Limits of the usefulness of print versus new digital delivery systems

Distributed publishing and printing on demand (P&PoD)

The e-book: a dedicated electronic reading device or an information service?

2 Defining the resources and assembling the pieces

Content, process and format

The publisher’s products: data, information and knowledge

The concept of the value of information

The publishing value chains

3 Players in the electronic publishing game

Electronics in publishing and electronic publishing

Looking for the user

The gentle art of reading

4 Many roads to electronic publishing

The road signs are in place

Forces driving electronic publishing

Internet-driven dichotomies

Dominance of search systems

Pricing alternatives

Towards a successful electronic publishing strategy

5 The 21st-century publisher

Constant incremental change

Characteristics, strategies and considerations: a mixed bag of emerging patterns and evolving stratagems

6 The future as epilogue

Understanding the real information needs

Challenging final questions

Appendix 1 Case study: Royal Brill, an independent international publisher who is not afraid of Google

A success story of innovative scholarly publishing

After 1945

Enter Google

The coming and going of search leaders and aggregators

Appendix 2 Open access: an alternative business model?

Many roads to open access

Currents in the open access movement

Some numbers

Opponents of the OA model

Open access textbooks: a different story

An interesting model

Conclusion

Appendix 3 A publisher’s private view on the occurrence of innovations

‘An occupation for gentlemen’ no more?

Nearly forgotten media prophets

Will the internet reverse a trend?

What may happen ... caveat investor

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The past as prologue

2 Defining the resources and assembling the pieces

3 Players in the electronic publishing game

4 Many roads to electronic publishing

5 The 21st-century publisher

6 The future as epilogue

Appendix 1 Case study: Royal Brill, an independent international publisher who is not afraid of Google

Appendix 2 Open access: an alternative business model?

Appendix 3 A publisher’s private view on the occurrence of innovations

Bibliography

Index

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