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° The Digital Transformation is a highly disruptive
innovation
° Nothing will be the same again
° The dominant publishing businesses of today will
be challenged by new entrants in the next
decade
° The Digital Transformation is a great equaliser
between Incumbents (current market leaders)
and Entrants (new enterprises with new
expertise)
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° They behave rationally, because they make
most money from what they do best .
° This is their key expertise and their
competitive advantage
° They compare the sure returns they make
from their O with the small returns
and high risk of innovation
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° cademic, professional scientific, technical
and medical publishers have made it the core
of their business process.
° Journal publishers have used it to develop
new types of product
° Most general publishers have responded
warmly in theory, but cautiously in practice
° No common and uniform response ʹ is it wise
for our company͛s publishing model.
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° !hat can you gain and what can you lose?
° How much do you know about the risks and
benefits ?
° Publishersʹ can use any of these media, but only
will compensate for lower cover price
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° !hat is a book
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° Is a book a cultural object or a commodity?
° ôhould a book be cheaper in a digital format
than in paper format?
° !ho should control a book͛s pricing?
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1. Remember the changed dynamics in publishing over the last ten years were
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will remain fixed in the system of copyrights and
intellectual property.
5. Publishing will quickly learn more and more from the rest of the communications
industry
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will be the absolute norm for future
publishing.
° Those working in future publishing will have to flourish in a world of
risk and instability.
° Money will flow into creating and building
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