The future of e-books in 2017

Introduction

Introductionary story on the topic discussed

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

• Authors rights and personality rights changes
• Members of WIPO leave
• Importance of learning increases over protection
• Overprotection of local laws and authors

Economic

• Economical and Environmental Issues

Social

• Literacy rates increase worldwide
• Escalation of plagiarism accusation (Bauke)

Technological

• Development of e-book readers
• New features compared to printed books
• Copyrights of digitised books become untrackable (Bauke)