WordsRU - Future Publishing

 

 

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WordsRU - Future Publishing

 

 

Bookshop operations around the globe are morphing into discrete functions. What we know as bookselling is being integrated into every facet of our digitalised information exchange. As an example, something in the order of a million or more sites feed their book business into Amazon.com and BN.com. The debate about future publishing continues unabated, and ranges from “this is the end of literature” and “books are dead” to “books will be with us forever!”  The truth is somewhere between but nonetheless, change is occurring within the publishing industry; some are making subtle shifts and others are unabashedly confronting a future that presents a range of publishing options, many of which are quite radical.

 

  • An ‘Espresso Book Machine’, a novel print-on-demand system, has been installed in the New York Public Library’s Science Industry and Business Library.

  • The multitude of possibilities inherent in radio-frequency identification technology (RFID)—the same tagging system used in bar-code identification—is another innovation that is being discussed in terms of its relevance in libraries but with wider applications as well. It uses radio waves to identify objects—books—and transmits that information to a reader that digitally converts the data to radio tag to which one tunes into in the same manner as a radio station.

  • Some publishers are moving ahead with online licensing, and although it is early days, many are considering their future publishing options, and adopting a cautious approach to digital licensing and content delivery.

  • Two or three major publishing houses have established digital ‘warehouses’ that make available brief extracts from books to satisfy search engines inquiries, principally via Google, but most are nowhere near establishing a digital presence as such.

  • The software giant, Adobe, has integrated the familiar functions of PDF into Web-based SAP (systems applications and products) solutions and chain supply applications along with print-on-demand services, and these adaptations are being explored to see how they may benefit future publishing, the media and society generally.

 

Each of these innovations is spawning a range of new products and services that will allow future publishing to adapt and be responsive to a rapidly changing and highly competitive environment. We will continue to live in a world where manuscripts, biographies, articles for magazine publishing, technical manuals and user guides as well as online features, e-books and many other texts will flourish. So too, will the need for qualified, professional writing, editing and proofreading, the grammar and punctuation help, and the myriad other online editing services available from WordsRU.

 

Far from books being ‘dead’ it seems clear that future publishers will be making them available in whatever form readers desire, whether in the most traditional of book formats, e-books or any one of a hybrid mix of digitalized choices—all of which means that the opportunities for writers (and editors and proofreaders) to present their wares has never looked brighter!

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