Sentences with phrase «physical means of distribution»

For these and other reasons, knowledge today must be digital since there is no other way for information to quickly spread out to meet these needs if it is confined to a physical means of distribution.

Because of its early history of identification with voice and picture formats, the broadcast style of electronics, particularly television, with its concern for telling images, will enlarge its domination of all communication content, whatever the physical means of distribution.

Not exact matches

The distribution of these shares was made in book - entry form, which means that no physical stock certificates were issued.

But for a huge media conglomerate like Disney, even that kind of success isn't enough, especially when Disney knew that a licensing model would mean higher margins and less risk than running an internally - funded effort that shoulders responsibility for marketing, distribution, toy production, physical inventory, and a 300 - person game development studio.

As sales channels evolve and digital sales (as opposed to sales of physical books via online channels) become more robust, a publisher will still have the upper hand over individual authors for the same reasons, because direct access to distribution doesn't mean equal (or profitable) access, and the long tail favors scale.

As the Defendant publishers and their physical book distribution systems get smaller and less profitable, competitors like Barnes & Noble teeter on the Borders of financial failure, and Apple becomes bored with an iBookstore whose marketplace it can not control by illegal means, Amazon's share of the total book trades market only grows, and grows, and grows.

There used to be a stigma to self - publishing; it was synonymous with vanity publishing, which meant that authors would spend several thousand dollars in exchange for inventory and the possibility of physical distribution.

«By drastically reducing the physical expenses and economic risks that have traditionally been borne by publishers, electronic distribution will change the entire dynamic of what «publishing» means in the new millennium.

Also, this trend of mixing online sales with physical locations means retailers can use their stores as warehouse and distribution centers.