The Future of Digital Publishing

The Future of Digital Magazine Publishing

The publishing industry went through more structural changes in the past ten years than in the whole second half of XX century. In magazine publishing in particular, since the emergence of the first sites to complement the print edition in the 1990s to the release of iPad in 2010, these media have enjoyed numerous opportunities provided by new technologies, which, in turn, demanded the reinvent...

The Future of Scholarly Publishing

172 The Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Scholarly Publishing, established by the Modern Language Association in 1999, set out to examine the current state of academic publishing in the fields of languages and literatures. The committee’s charge was to investigate and understand the widely perceived crisis in scholarly publishing and make recommendations to address the situation. Librarians, e...

Put the digital into digital publishing

• Compose personalized documents for the reader. For example, once could have a text base on statistical methods, where each topic is treated at several levels (such as for readers who know calculus and those who do not) and where each method has examples from several domains. Given a reader’s background, subject domain, and learning goal, the system would then sequence of topics that build on ...

Developments in Publishing: The Potential of Digital Publishing

This research aims to identify issues associated with the impact of digital technology on the publishing industry with a specific focus on aspects of the sustainability of existing business models in Australia. Based on the case studies, interviews and Australian-wide online surveys, the research presents a review of the traditional business models in book publishing for investigating their eff...

Embracing Digital Publishing