The Business of Digital Publishing

Introduction to Part III

Part III looks at the issues that are under continual scrutiny as digital models emerge. These issues cross over the different publishing sectors; they do not all necessarily impact on every sector to the same degree, but they all raise questions that publishers across fields are having to consider. They have also been grouped together because they remain very much open-ended discussions, constantly changing as the digital business environment speeds up. Because the digital world encompasses increasing levels of convergence, issues previously outside core publishing activities are impinging on publishers more explicitly: books are another form of entertainment and this now needs to be more clearly acknowledged as publishers ...