what does the future look like for publishers
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Manifesto: What does the future look like for publishers. TOC for publishers 2009 in NY.TRANSCRIPT
Manifesto 2.0:What does the future look
like for publishers?Sara Lloyd
Digital DirectorPan Macmillan
A little bit of history (1)• 1448 – Gutenberg’s printing press• 1839 – commercial telegraph; electricity
runs a printing press• 1876 - telephone• 1920 - radio• 1935 – television• 1951 – first mass-produced computer• 1959 – the microchip• 1969 – first ARPANET nodes installed
A little bit of history (2)1969 – First ARPANET nodes installed 1976 – Queen Elizabeth II is first world leader to send an email 1981 – First digital version of Encyclopedia Britannica; JISC launches JANET 1983 – ARPANET switches to TCP/IP protocol, birth of the Internet 1991 – CERN releases the world wide web; Elsevier’s TULIP project
launched 1993 – WWW goes public, first graphical web browser (Mosaic) 1994 – Encyclopedia Britannica goes online; c.75 online journals 1995 - ScienceDirect1998 – XML is created 1999 – Official launch of the Google search engine 2000 – Grove and OED launched online 2002 – 75% of journals in Science Citation Index are online 2004 –Google Print, Google Library and Google Scholar launch2008 – ebook Readers become available in UK bookstores; Kindle sales spike
after Oprah votes it her favourite gadget in US; Lexcycle’s Stanza for iPhone is downloaded 500,000+ times; Google launches Android and settles with AAP….
Ever felt like you’re operating on shifting sands….?
….So, what does the future look like?
Photo: Associated Press
Some interesting numbers1,280,000,000,000
121.5
2.2
5 out of 10
1,200,000
Some more interesting numbers
50
30-70
technical revolution:
dial-up broadbanddesktops connected devices
social revolution
content is king comments are king
“Content isn't king; conversation is. If you had the choice of bringing your friends or your books to a desert island, we'd call you a sociopath if you took the books over the breathing humans.”
- Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
What needs to change about the way publishers do business?
publisher = intermediary
publisher = enabler?
…and learn how to collaborate…
A sorry reminderA sorry reminder….
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/music-lessons.html
Sara LloydDigital DirectorPan Macmillan
http://thedigitalist.net
The Manifesto at the digitalist:
http://thedigitalist.net/?p=155
The Manifesto at Library Trends:
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/toc/lib.57.1.html