xiang ren new models of publishing
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The disruptive changes of publishing industry, new research themes on digital publishing, two case studies: Chinese online literature and open access scholarly publishingTRANSCRIPT
New Models of Publishing
Dr Xiang Ren
The Traditional Publishing World
Publishing industry
Authorship
Copyright
Readership
Inspired by Angus Philips: Introduction to Turning the Page. Routledge 2014
The “New” Readers and Authors
Readers
Readers +authors
Readers+ authors+ publishers
• Active, creative, and networked readers
• Everyone publishes everything
• Gatekeeping vs. readers’ collective intelligence
• Removal of publisher intermediaries
Copyright from Closed to Open
Subscription Piracy FreemiumFree content
and Cross-subsidy
Open to reuse and
remix
Crisis and Opportunities for Publishing Industry
Research Themes
• New Value Propositions: The shift from markets in content to markets in services that make content useful
• Moving beyond closed: the sustainability, efficiency, and regulation of the “open” at scale
• Coordinating Institutions and Infrastructure and supporting publishing industry
• From national to global content landscapes
Case Studies
• Self-publishing: Chinese Online Literature, democratizing authorship and monetizing UGC
• Open access, open publishing, and the future of digital scholarship
Case Studies: Knowledge Unlatched
• A global scale action research experiment in market coordination for OA
• 300 libraries in 24 Countries• KU South• Big Knowledge Lab
Case Studies: Digital Publishing in China
Thank You!
Research Fellow,Australian Digital Futures Institute, [email protected]: #renxiangcn