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TheBook UnboundDisruption and Disintermediationin the Digital AgeAn AHRC Digital TransformationsResearch Development ProjectAH/J01317X/1Project PartnersUniversity of StirlingPI: Professor Claire SquiresCo-Is: Dr Paula Morris& Dr Padmini Ray Murray Project Assistants: Helen Lewis-McPhee, Louisa Preston & Aileen-Elizabeth TaylorExternal PartnersScott Russell Publishing ServicesElectric Bookshopwww.bookunbound.stir.ac.uk@stirpublishing @clairesquires @praymurray
The Book Unbound focused on how publishing is reacting to the advent of digital technologies, and on the constantly changing relationships in the book trade as it moves from print and paper to digital ink and screen. Seismic shifts are resulting in emergent business models that challenge the prevailing hierarchies of cultural gatekeeping, as well as developing new modes of authorship, and reshaping perceptions of the book as cultural artifact. The traditional publishing value chain traces the trajectory of intellectual property from author to reader, where publishing activities such as editorial, marketing and design are all performed by the publisher. Now, this process is being disrupted and disintermediated at every stage. Traditional to Digital Communications Circuit
Borderlines We explored the impact of the digital age on publishing through two modes of enquiry, both of which fed into a series of infographics depicting changing models of publishing:Case studies of And Other Stories, Blasted Heath, Canongate TV, Faber Factory andGuardian Books, focusing on business models created in response to technological change.Experimental enquiry via the research, development and making of a digital publication (Borderlines) for the iPad, using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.
Outputs Electric Bookshop showcase Publishing Scotland conference 2013 The Bookseller ‘Forward Thinking: Indies Tackle Digital Straight On’ Book 2.0 ‘The Digital Publishing Communications Circuit’ Borderlines the app
Taleist Survey: Not a Gold Rush http://blog.taleist.com/2012/05/24/report-self-publishing-survey/
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/what-the-new-penguin-random-house-logo-might-look-like/http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/what-the-new-penguin-random-house-logo-might-look-like/