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Future of Publishers: Adapting to a Shifting Landscape

Explore the history of publishing and the technological advancements that have shaped it. Discover the numbers, trends, and insights that highlight the need for change in the publishing industry. Join the conversation on the future of publishing and how to better serve customers.

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Future of Publishers: Adapting to a Shifting Landscape

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  1. Manifesto 2.0:What does the future look like for publishers? Sara Lloyd Digital Director Pan Macmillan

  2. 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

  3. 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 - ScienceDirect 1998 – 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 launch 2008 – 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….

  4. Ever felt like you’re operating on shifting sands….?

  5. ….So, what does the future look like?

  6. Photo: Associated Press

  7. Some interesting numbers 1,280,000,000,000 121.5 2.2 5 out of 10 1,200,000

  8. Some more interesting numbers 50 30-70

  9. technical revolution: dial-up broadband desktops connected devices

  10. 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

  11. What needs to change about the way publishers do business?

  12. publisher = intermediary

  13. publisher = enabler?

  14. publishers understand markets… …not customers

  15. …and learn how to collaborate…

  16. A sorry reminder A sorry reminder…. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/music-lessons.html

  17. Sara Lloyd Digital Director Pan Macmillan s.lloyd@macmillan.co.uk 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

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