Despite having a long history, publishing has constantly been on the cutting edge of innovation, with its key technology, the book, still holding potential for exploitation and evolution, not only due to its recent digital transformation. As the representative of European Publishers, FEP has an overview of several developments...
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...
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...
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...
Over the last decades, the adoption of digital technology led to the transformation of entire traditional sectors. This huge transformation has been defined as "convergence" (Chon et al., 2003). The term convergence has been widely used in literature over time in several disciplines, from social sciences to natural sciences....
This is the third instalment of four publications that aim to identify some of the trends of the twenty-first-century book industry by uncovering its past. The dust that covers a book in a bookshop is not always a sign of poor quality., Instead, it can symbolize the difficulties to sell a good that is not always to the taste of an entire society, but just a...
This is the second instalment of four publications that will outline the on-going evolution of the book industry. Books create conversations, debates, controversies, and every generation has its titles. Sometimes studied in class, sometimes found in a library, or even discovered through a movie, books are almost part of our genetic identity. It is impossible to imagine a world without books. The...
This is the first installment of a four-part publication that will introduce the changes in one of the most important sectors of the culture industry. The European publishing sector has been experiencing some major changes lately that have consequences over the entire process of book publishing. Book reading is competing nowadays with an...
