Entered by Gio Wiederhold, updated 11 Jan 2002, 1 Feb 2002.
Advertising income, See Meet06Notes.html
The old market view is that information is valuable. But today that is only one side of the equations. Information, to be useful, also requires attention. Today we have more information available than attention to consume it. This realization changes the business picture.
Authors -- content providers , many, potentially all Internet users
Publishers -- past -- future
Acquisition editors -- past -- future
Content editors -- past -- future
Printers -- past -- future
Distributors -- past -- future
Bookstores -- past -- future
Readers
Decision makers
Types of publications and their suitability for Internet distribution
Books
1. Reference books
2. Textbooks
3. Monographs, theses
4. Literature
Magazines
1. Technical Journals; IEEE Transactions on Computers. ACM Networking
2.
Narrow domain magazines: Apartment Living, Home and
Garden, Gourmet, Conde Nast
3.
Newsmagazines: Time, Newsweek, ...
4. Literary Magazine: The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly
Newspapers
See Business Week 11 Feb 2002 article: "All the News that fits on a Handheld" , may be restricted access.
New technologies:
1. E-books
2. E-paper
3. Dynamic content
4. Print-on-demand
Are libraries a business?
Who benefits now?
Who pays now?
Who benefits in the future?
Who pays in the future?
Needed for investors
List income sources (type, amount per Transaction No of expected transactions
per month or year)
List cost items: investment, interest on loans for investment,monthly
personnel, supplies, service expenses, for various rates of transactions
performed
Estimate for several quarters, years: income, cost, to get profit/loss
See Digital Library chapter draft.