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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==
Information technology and especially the Internet have profoundly changed the ways of publishing. Newspapers and magazines have for years been published online and all kinds of texts are now available in digitised form. At the turn of the century this digitalisation of the written language finally reached the book publishing industry; electronic books - or e-books - can now be bought and downloaded from various kinds of e-bookstores on line.  
Information technology and especially the Internet have changed the ways of publishing. Newspapers and magazines have for years been published online and all kinds of texts are now available in digitised form. At the turn of the century this digitalisation of the written language finally reached the book publishing industry; electronic books - or e-books - can now be bought and downloaded from various kinds of e-bookstores on line.  




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Introduction

Information technology and especially the Internet have changed the ways of publishing. Newspapers and magazines have for years been published online and all kinds of texts are now available in digitised form. At the turn of the century this digitalisation of the written language finally reached the book publishing industry; electronic books - or e-books - can now be bought and downloaded from various kinds of e-bookstores on line.



Team Composition

  • Bauke Fahner
  • XinYu Jiang
  • Bas Sluijsmans
  • Sanna Tauriainen
  • Raymond de Vos

    • Research Questions

    In our research we have identified 5 different categories, namely:

    1. History (Xin Yu)
    2. Economic Perspective/Value (Raymond)
    3. General Information (Raymond/Sanna)
    4. Prospective usage of books (Bas)
    5. Law, Legislation and Stakeholders (Bauke)

    See the research questions section for the actual questions and answers.

    Driving Forces

    Based on the PEST theory

    Political

    Economic

    Environmental

    Social

    Technological

    Diagrams

    Systems Diagram

    Other diagrams

    Scenarios

    Scenario 1

    Scenario 2

    Scenario 3

    References

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