WSJ, Alexandra Alter : "Publishers are only just beginning to mull over the potential uses for e-reading data. Many are skeptical that analytics can aid in the industry's ongoing battle to woo consumers who are increasingly distracted by games and social media. But at a time when traditional publishers are losing ground to tech giants like Amazon and Apple, better analytics seem to offer tantalizing possibilities."
Publishing has lagged far behind the rest of the entertainment industry when it comes to measuring consumers' tastes and habits. TV producers relentlessly test new shows through focus groups; movie studios run films through a battery of tests and retool them based on viewers' reactions. But in publishing, reader satisfaction has largely been gauged by sales data and reviews—metrics that offer a postmortem measure of success but can't shape or predict a hit. That's beginning to change as publishers and booksellers start to embrace big data, and more tech companies turn their sights on publishing.
Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö on myöntänyt 250 000 euron avustuksen kansallisen e-kirjaston selvityshankkeen käynnistämiseksi. Hankkeen tavoitteena on parantaa e-kirjojen alueellista saatavuutta ja kansalaisten yhdenvertaisuutta koko Suomessa.
Helsingin kaupunginkirjaston vetämässä hankkeessa selvitetään ja kokeillaan eri kumppaneiden kanssa uusia ratkaisuja liittyen digitaalisen kirjaston teknisiin, tekijänoikeudellisiin ja käytettävyyskysymyksiin. Lisäksi selvitetään, miten e-kirjastoasiassa voidaan tehdä yhteistyötä Kansalliskirjaston ja sen Finna-palveluympäristön kanssa.
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Wired December 2003 The Great Library of Amazonia 120,000 fully searchable texts and counting … Jeff Bezos is building the world's biggest digital book archive. It's an info-age dream come true - and the best way to sell books ever.
By David Meyer, Fortune December 19, 2019
A new EU court ruling is shaping what "used" means in the era of digital media.
"Tom Kabinet’s defense was that the so-called “rule of exhaustion” should apply when it comes to second-hand ebooks, as it does with paper books—in other words, after the ebook has been sold the first time, the publisher no longer has a right to control how it is traded. (This is known as the “first sale doctrine” in the U.S.)"
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