Books in the Age of Online Publishing

BOOKSin the age of

online publishing

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Online Publishing2012

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Books physical appearance

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Formats!!.azw

.epub

Books storage

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Books storage

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Books price

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priceless

$ 8,95 amazon.com

paperback

$ 16,49 amazon.com

hardcoverhttp://www.amazon.com/Canterbury-Tales-GEOFFREY-CHAUCER/dp/0785823123/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285061239&sr=1-1

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Books price

priceless

$ 8,95

$ 16,49

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$ 3,32 amazon.com$ 0,00 manybooks.net

Books access

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= elitebirth supremacyintellectual class

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Books access

= anyone, anywhere

Books bookshops

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Books bookshops

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old bookshops = nostalgia & romance

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Books bookshops

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Online Publishing2010-2011

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Readers the act of reading

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Readers what they read

= what the expert says they should/shouldn't read

but who's the expert?

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Readers the expert: magazines

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Readers the expert: the reviewer

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Elite Anyone who reads

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Readers the expert = the reader = the consumer

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amazon.comalibris.co.uk

barnes&nobleproxis.be

WHSmith.co.uk azur.be cosmox.be

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Authors

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exclusive top of society (elite)

or outside of society individual one to many

anyone and everyone anywhere, any class individual and together one/many to many


Authors

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collaborative writing ( like a wiki story)


Publishers

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Publishers


Let's

summarise

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any reader can be an expert readers are consumers books can be consumed by anyone, anywhere anyone, anywhere can be a writer

the reader = the consumer = the expert = the author???


However?

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No more qualification of books?Any book goes?

Dedifferentiation

No!

1. Reviews by experts2. Lists, lists, lists


However?

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Dedifferentiation

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Lists...

However?

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The end of the professional writer?

The end of the library?

The end of the bookshop?- small bookshops endangered by corporate bookshops?- any physical bookshop endangered by online bookshops?- physical books endangered by e-books?- are e-books risky for publishers?- any publisher endangered by free online stories?

Dedifferentiation

Publishing

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strategiesare e-books risky for publishers?

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in first few days of release:more digital editions sold

Less than 24 hrs after release:pirated digital copies

Within days, more than100.000 illegal downloads

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strategiesare e-books risky for publishers?

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E-books+ cheap to produce+ wide audience targeted+ sales are rising- very easy to hack

no protection for authorsf.e. J.K. Rowling refusal

Publishing

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providing an online bookshop

joining an online bookshop community

using social media

creating application for mobile devices

selling e-books

mix culture & consumerism

strategies

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strategies

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are book publishers endangered by free online stories?

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