The future of e-books in 2017
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
- Economical and Environmental Issues
- Authors of books will be creating books under "open source like" licences
Social
Technological
- Development of e-book readers
- New features compared to printed books
- New development on the field of (free)energy changes the way we use digital media http://www.steorn.org
- A universal standard for e-books will become available
- New displays will be available to the public
- People will not use digital books as expected, preference still goes with paper books
- Copyrights of digitised books become untrackable