The future of books

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Team Composition


Research Questions

Financial

Digitizing of books

Distribution of books

Format of ebooks

Copyright of digital books

Driving Forces

Excessive amount of paper use in traditional books

Invention of digital ink and paper

Increased usage/penetration of digital portable devices

Changes in the copyright laws

The security of digital right management

The availability of Internet bandwidth

Difficulty of having a book published and distributed

Cost of digital book compared to normal book

Reachability of potential customers

Lower cost of datastorage & bandwidth

Increase in amount of people connected to internet

Increase of amount of people connected to internet with mobile device

Systems Diagram

Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Scenario 3