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Meet our partners: IN2

Clara Pont2022-06-01T16:29:24+02:00

Alexandru Stan is leading the research and innovation projects of IN2. How are you imagining right now the Möbius Book prototype development?   Well we are currently in the midst of it. We tested our initial initial concepts and designs in the first pilot phase and now in the second pilot...

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#4 Newsletter – Meet the winners of the Möbius Open Call for manuscripts!

Clara Pont2022-05-24T16:54:47+02:00

Get ready to discover Möbius ecosystem. By subscribing to our newsletter, you will get fresh news in your inbox email! Do not miss the chance to be the first one in receiving it!

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The winners of the Open Call for Manuscripts were announced at the Möbius Awards Ceremony

Clara Pont2022-05-10T09:31:54+02:00

Möbius celebrated its online Awards Ceremony on the 21st of April and announced the winners of its Open Call for manuscripts. The event had 72 participants from all around Europe, and welcomed special guests like the novelist Giulio Ravizza, who explained his role within the Möbius project related to...

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Business exploitation scenarios for prosumer book publishing

Clara Pont2022-05-17T10:33:29+02:00

This article presents IMEC-SMIT’s business modellers. Due to the importance of the prosumer in the Möbius project, its complicated relationship with IP-developing desirable business models becomes a challenge. We propose three dimensions as central to understanding this dynamic. First, the originality of the work; second, the degree to which the prosumer retains exploitation...

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Reading Rationals: Consciously Unconscious Customer Centricity

Clara Pont2022-04-26T12:42:05+02:00

In this post Markus Fertig, PR Manager at MVB, introduces us to the Reading Rationals. A new standard in the book industry that consciously appeals the subconscious for customers to always find their perfect match among thousands of possibilities in the book market. A new approach: Thinking from the...

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Meet our partners: MVB

Clara Pont2022-04-13T13:38:01+02:00

Anabel Acuña is the EU Project Manager by MVB MVB makes books visible. Major platforms, based on international metadata standards, enable publishers and bookstores to promote their products successfully and efficiently in their home markets and abroad. The editorial and advertising formats, combined with face-to-face networking at live events, provide...

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Predicting content popularity in fanfiction communities

Clara Pont2022-05-17T10:23:14+02:00

In this post, Eurecat’s Computational Social Science team presents a model for predicting the popularity of content in fanfiction communities, developed as part of the work carried on in the Möbius project. From customer intelligence to prosumer intelligence One of the aims of the Möbius project is to guide the publishing...

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The Möbius Project at the Mobile World Congress 2022!

Clara Pont2022-04-26T12:40:40+02:00

With the pandemic showing signs of receding, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year exceeded last year’s attendees and increased its event space. For this reason, Möbius project had the chance to attend Mobile World Capital with a stand, including several totems with tactile screens, where people could play...

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The Möbius Team shares data on the Open Call for Manuscripts

Clara Pont2022-04-26T12:41:44+02:00

You might already know that the Möbius Open Call for Manuscripts recently closed for entries. Although the final results are to come, the Möbius Team is thrilled to share with all of you some data on the applications we received. In this short blog post, we’ll give a quick...

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Meet our partners: Design Entrepreneurship Institute

Clara Pont2022-02-03T16:30:37+01:00

Simona De Rosa (PhD) is member of the Board of Directors at the DEN Institute. The Design Entrepreneurship Institute is a non-profit think tank, working at European level thanks to an extended network of collaborators. DEN main areas of activities are: support to participatory innovation practices, socio-economic impact assessment of research...

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  • Meet our partners: IN2
  • #4 Newsletter – Meet the winners of the Möbius Open Call for manuscripts!
  • The winners of the Open Call for Manuscripts were announced at the Möbius Awards Ceremony
  • Business exploitation scenarios for prosumer book publishing

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    AvatarMöbius@mobius_europe·
    1 Jul

    💡Do you prefer to read on paper or on screen? This dilemma arises constantly, but here it is explainedwhat has happened to traditional reading after the pandemic. Discovering and reading go hand in hand, join us! 🔗👉

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    30 Jun

    Möbius Awards Ceremony🏆 The winners of the open call for manuscripts were announced!

    👉Meet the winner of the first mobius book
    👉Get to know the project and find out how you can be the next one.
    👉Discover the winners

    Enjoy the full event here 🔗https://youtu.be/elz4tisizM4

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    ⏰THE MÖBIUS OPEN CALL IS CLOSING TOMORROW! 'Th ⏰THE MÖBIUS OPEN CALL IS CLOSING TOMORROW!

'The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.' The Nobel Prize Dennis Gabor once said, which seemed to be visioning what the Möbius project aims to do: create the world of tomorrow with the values we dream today according to the New European Bauhaus.🚀

Are you thrilled to be part of it? Then, do not hesitate to participate in the Möbius Open Call! 
 
🥇1,500€ will be awarded for the best story 

 🥈🥉500€ will be awarded for each of the 2nd and 3rd places.  

 🎫The prizes will be delivered in kind 
 
 Eligibility conditions: 

 💡Unpublished work 

 📄Max. length of 6.000 characters (including spaces) 

 🌍Participants must be of legal age (>18) and EU-citizens (plus Norway and Iceland) 

 💬Languages: English, Italian and Spanish  

 🗓Deadline: TOMORROW!
 👉 Link in bio!
    The Möbius Open Call is about to close! Don't pro The Möbius Open Call is about to close! Don't procrastinate the submission of your manuscript because there are huge things that can come up!  

🥇1,500€ will be awarded for the best story 

 🥈🥉500€ will be awarded for each of the 2nd and 3rd places.  

 🎫The prizes will be delivered in kind 

Eligibility conditions: 

 💡Unpublished work 

 📄Max. length of 6.000 characters (including spaces) 

 🌍Participants must be of legal age (>18) and EU-citizens (plus Norway and Iceland) 

 💬Languages: English, Italian and Spanish 

 🗓Deadline: January 15th, 2022 

Stay connected! 

Link in bio!
    🟣APPLY TO THE MÖBIUS OPEN CALL! This is a 🟣APPLY TO THE MÖBIUS OPEN CALL! 

This is a call to all writers, whether professional or amateur🤩! We are looking for short original fantasy stories. The winning manuscript will become the 1st Möbius Book, a cross-media experience involving a 3D audio and virtual reality production and art installation! We want authors to imagine and build a beautiful and liveable future, the future we dream about. Participate now in the creation of the #MobiusBook!🔝 

 🥇1,500€ will be awarded for the best story 

 🥈🥉500€ will be awarded for each of the 2nd and 3rd places.  

 🎫The prizes will be delivered in kind 

Eligibility conditions: 

 💡Unpublished work 

 📄Max. length of 6.000 characters (including spaces) 

 🌍Participants must be of legal age (>18) and EU-citizens (plus Norway and Iceland) 

 💬Languages: English, Italian and Spanish 

 🗓Deadline: January 15th, 2022 

 Link in bio!
    🟣 Does this slogan ring a bell? “A book for t 🟣 Does this slogan ring a bell? “A book for the price of a pack of cigarettes” It was from Allen Lane, who started the @penguinrandomhouse

After spending a weekend with world-famous author Agatha Christie, Lane realized that there were no quality books available in train stations, only magazines and pulp fiction. To ensure the success of his business model, he had to sell at least 17,000 copies of each book he published, yet after just one year, three million copies of the first ten published books of the new house were sold! 📚
👉 Link in bio!
🖊Marjorie Grassler
    🟣Did you know that the five genres that are mos 🟣Did you know that the five genres that are most likely to generate bestsellers according to Nielsen Book Data are general and literary fiction; children's fiction, crime, thriller and adventure; young adult fiction and romance and sagas?

👉 Link in bio!
🖊Marjorie Grassler
    🟣 With the arrival of the internet and other te 🟣 With the arrival of the internet and other technologies, the publishing sector had to dig to its deeper roots to extract new formats to reach its audiences 📚. So many business models have emerged to tackle the digital disruption, adapting sometimes the old way of working to the online and interactive environment. The encyclopedia salesperson has not disappeared; they have only been uploaded to the cloud!

👉 Link in bio!
 🖊Marjorie Grassler

#mobiusbook #booklovers #bookstagram #techlover #cloud
    🟪Book publishing is the largest cultural indust 🟪Book publishing is the largest cultural industry in Europe🤩

💡Did you know that the total market value is €36-38 billion? (@europeancommission)

The majority of the world’s top publishing groups are European-owned: six to eight of the top 10 publishing groups, according to the annual Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry).” 🌍🚀

Source: Publishing Perspectives

#mobiusbook #booklovers #inspiration #publishing #culture #europe #h2020
    🟣 Did you know that e-books are 15-20% cheaper 🟣 Did you know that e-books are 15-20% cheaper to produce than physically books? 🤩 Ebooks are often cheaper in the long run than traditional books because there are no printing fees associated with them 🚀 

Source: @breobox

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    🟣Looking for fan fiction enthusiasts to join 🟣Looking for  fan fiction enthusiasts  to join an online discussion on  new reading experiences  next Thursday!

✨ Interested in joining? 

👉Leave your details in the link you will find in the bio and we'll reach out to you
    🟣🗣 Did you know that in Europe every year th 🟣🗣 Did you know that in Europe every year there are 500.000 titles published and there are 22 millions of titles available? Looking at longer term trends, up to 2007 there was steady growth both in terms of turnover and of title output. In 2008 title production kept growing whilst turnover, adjusting for exchange rates, experienced a flat year. 2009 showed a slight decrease in turnover (accounting for exchange rates) and a slowdown of title growth 📚. 

💡 The crisis had less of an impact on publishing when compared to most other sectors. In 2010, growth resumed (especially exports), although favoured by exchange rates. 📖In 2011 and 2012, the market went down, and title production growth was sluggish; the e-book market grew rapidly, and exports were strong. In 2013 and 2014 the market slowed down again, with the most notable trends being the continuous growth of the e-book market and the good performance of exports, which became even stronger from 2015 to 2017. 

📲The e-book market (now nearing 10% of the total) showed signs of stagnation for the last 5 years (but it could be a matter of capturing the right data), whereas audio book sales exploded in 2019, giving new impetus to digital sales. If 2018 marked a trend reversal in the recovery process started in 2015, 2019 confirmed the positive trend🚀. 

Source: @fedeuropeanpublishers
    🟪 💡 “We may be drowning and not even know 🟪 💡 “We may be drowning and not even know it.” Philip Jones, the Bookseller. This sentence opens a discussion on the turbulence created in traditional value chains in the latest edition of The Business of Books 2019. It is an urgent call for action for an industry that is hardly acknowledging that book and reading markets have changed profoundly and have entered the “attention economy” in which books, authors, publishers and retailers find themselves competing against anything and everybody else that connects with the audience. 

Deeper shifts in many of these markets require us to dive beneath the Surface. From Argetina Brazil and Mexico, to the UK and to a slightly less extent, even traditionalist Germany, self-publishing has managed to establish itself as a new industry segment of significant scope -one that has achieved remarkable economic success. However, due to a lack of data, our undestanding of this segment is appallingly incomplete📚

Source: The Business of Books 2019

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#mobiusbook #stories #booklovers #bookaholics #freshthoughts #hypertext #readers #bookstagram #bookaddict #inspiration
    🟪The closure of the bookshops has been devastat 🟪The closure of the bookshops has been devastating for the publishing sector. The Spanish ones had 22’5% of losses during the pandemic, as explained by the sector (elperiodico). ⁠
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Product offerings consumer preferences and consumption patterns are becoming more liquid and segmented by various factors, they include different perspectives on books, reading and audio consumption 💡.
    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 957185