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TrendSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies
1st EDITION

Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.

Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska

Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2002
Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition.

(C) 2002 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska - write to: [email protected] or to [email protected]
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ISBN: 9989-929-23-8
Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
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The Articles (please scroll down to review them): E-books and e-publishing
The Future of Electronic Publishing I. The Disintermediation of Content
II. E(merging) Books
III. Invasion of the Amazons
IV. Revolt of the Scholars
V. The Kidnapping of Content
VI. The Miraculous Conversion
VII. The Medium and the Message
VIII. The Idea of Reference
IX. Will Content ever be Profitable?
X. Jamaican OverDrive - LDC's and LCD's
XI. An Embarrassment of Riches
XII. The Fall and Fall of p-Zines
XIII. The Internet and the Library
XIV. A Brief History of the Book
XV. The Affair of the Vanishing Content
XVI. Revolt of the Poor - The Demise of Intellectual Property
XVII. The Territorial Web
XVIII. The In-credible Web
XIX. Does Free Content Sell?
XX. Copyright and Free Online Scholarship
XXI. The Second Gutenberg
XXII. The E-book Evangelist

Web Technology and Trends I. Bright Planet, Deep Web
II. The Seamless Internet
III. The Polyglottal Internet
IV. Deja Googled
V. Maps of Cyberspace
VI. The Universal Interface
VII. Internet Advertising - What Went Wrong?
VIII. The Economics of Spam
IX. Don't Blink - Interview with Jeffrey Harrow
X. The Case of the Compressed Image
The Internet and the Digital Divide
I. The Internet - A Medium or a Message?
II. The Internet in the Countries in Transition
III. Leapfrogging Transition
IV. The Selfish Net - The Semantic Web Author: Sam Vaknin Contact Info: [email protected]; [email protected]

E-BOOKS AND E-PUBLISHING
The Future of Electronic Publishing First published by United Press International (UPI) By: Sam Vaknin
UNESCO's somewhat arbitrary definition of "book" is: ""Non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages excluding covers". The emergence of electronic publishing was supposed to change all that. Yet a bloodbath of unusual proportions has taken place in the last few months. Time Warner's iPublish and MightyWords (partly owned by Barnes and Noble) were the last in a string of resounding failures which cast in doubt the business model underlying digital content. Everything seemed to have gone wrong: the dot.coms dot bombed, venture capital dried up, competing standards fractured an already fragile marketplace, the hardware (e-book readers) was clunky and awkward, the software unwieldy,