Markets for Electronic Book ProductsBill Cope, Dean Mason Presenting research in leading edge applications of new technologies in traditional book markets, this book analyses what the commercial opportunities are and how businesses might go about exploiting them. In addition to the education sector, significant opportunities also existing in markets for print handicapped, maps and infotainment. |
Contents
CONSIDERATIONS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT | 5 |
Tea Tree Gully eDocument Initiative | 11 |
Chapter 3 | 27 |
Chapter 4 | 45 |
Future Content Services for Young People | 63 |
From Printing Maps to Satisfy Demand | 81 |
Chapter 7 | 97 |
Chapter 8 | 135 |
The Reader as User in a ReIntermediated Supply Chain | 163 |
Peter Burrows Michael Coburn and Daria | 181 |
Publishing in the New Economy | 199 |
Chapter 12 | 227 |
Common terms and phrases
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