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Bauke Fahner
XinYu Jiang
Bas Sluijsmans
Sanna Tauriainen
Raymond de Vos
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* [[Authors of books will be creating books under "open source like" licences]] | * [[Authors of books will be creating books under "open source like" licences]] | ||
* [[eBooks and the effect on knowledge sharing in developing countries]] | * [[eBooks and the effect on knowledge sharing in developing countries]] | ||
* [[Emergence of E-publishing]] | |||
=== Environmental === | === Environmental === | ||
Revision as of 22:09, 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
- The future of publishing and supply chain change
- Government control of publishing
Economic
- Authors of books will be creating books under "open source like" licences
- eBooks and the effect on knowledge sharing in developing countries
- Emergence of E-publishing
Environmental
Social
- Literacy rates increase worldwide
- Escalation of plagiarism accusation
- Is there a future for the library
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
- Books (paper) are preferred over digital media
- Copyrights of digitized books become untrackable
- Screen technology
- Conversion of books to eBooks