To the contrary, you can't resell an eBook (at least not yet)-- digital rights management makes it so, and the
entire publishing value chain should consider DRM its friend.
As digital distribution begins to be felt along the
trade publishing value chain, what will emerge is not a NEW VALUE CHAIN as much as a NEW VALUE WEB, an...
The division of the consumer's dollar across
the publishing value chain has a history of change.
That leaves room for individual authors to take advantage of digital formats that bring control of
the publishing value chain into their hands (i.e., selling directly to readers).
They are Gutenberg redux, technology flattening the cash flow stream for participants across
the publishing value chain.
Does this drive ebooks or simply change
the publishing value chain?
McCarthy Digital is a consultancy providing breakthrough solutions to trade book publishers and those in
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The publishing value chain is compacting, making it easy for content producers / authors to reach consumers directly which, in turn, is also changing the financial model on which publishing is based.
Peter McCarthy is the founder of McCarthy Digital, a consultancy providing breakthrough solutions to trade book publishers and those in
the publishing value chain.
Conclusions for 2009 And so, two and a half years on, where is the publisher in
the publishing value chain?
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The move was exposed in a story in Writers Weekly and is another sign that the online giant is using its growing market dominance to reach deeper into
the publishing value chain.
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