Difference between revisions of "The future of e-books in 2017"
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Bauke Fahner
XinYu Jiang
Bas Sluijsmans
Sanna Tauriainen
Raymond de Vos
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=== Environmental === | === Environmental === | ||
* [[ Environmental Issues]] | * [[ Paper Industry and Environmental Issues]] | ||
=== Social === | === Social === |
Revision as of 20:12, 5 March 2007
Introduction
Introductionary story on the topic discussed
Team Composition
Research Questions
In our research we have identified 5 different categories, namely:
- History (Xin Yu)
- Economic Perspective/Value (Raymond)
- General Information (Raymond/Sanna)
- Prospective usage of books (Bas)
- Law, Legislation and Stakeholders (Bauke)
See the research questions section for the actual questions and answers.
Driving Forces
Based on the PEST theory
Political
- Authors rights and personality rights changes
- Members of WIPO leave
- Importance of learning increases over protection
- Overprotection of local laws and authors
Economic
Environmental
Social
Technological
- Development of e-book readers
- New features compared to printed books
- New development in (free)energy http://www.steorn.org
- Unified standard for e-books
- New displays will be available to the public
- Books (paper) are preferred over digital media
- Copyrights of digitized books become untrackable