From Paper to Platform.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staff, World Intellectual Property Organization.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva : World Intellectual Property Organization, 2021.

Summary:

Supporting the development of a national book and reading culture through local professional writers and publishers requires an understanding of the way this sector of the creative economy works and how it is affected by the digital revolution. This publication is intended to help policymakers, particularly those in countries that are interested in promoting local publishing, to understand the publishing industry better and to understand how copyright and other policies affect the way books are being created, published and consumed.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

About the author

A note on the statistics and data used in this publication

List of acronyms

Chapter 1: Introduction

Literacy, publishing and public policy

Chapter 2: Publishing and the digital revolution

Chapter 3: The global publishing industry

Book publishing at a glance

Global publishing markets

The international trade in rights and translations

Chapter 4: What drives digital migration in publishing?

Socioeconomic, cultural and political drivers

Consumer choice: the ultimate driver

Drivers of the digital migration in trade publishing

Drivers of the digital migration in educational publishing

Drivers of digital migration in scholarly and professional publishing

Chapter 5: The business of publishing

Publishing and the digital environment

The traditional publishing value chain

Publishing value chains on the internet

Pricing and new business models

Open-access and "free" content

Hybrid business models: managing analogue and digital businesses together

Chapter 6: Managing rights in the digital environment

Copyright and the internet

Why authors and publishers must understand copyright and licensing

Relevant digital rights

New digital copyright challenges

Public domain, free and orphan works

Managing digital rights

Blockchain and digital rights management

Collective licensing

Chapter 7: Piracy in the digital environment

Anti-piracy strategies

Chapter 8: Conclusions

Annexes

Public policy checklist that enables digital migration

Author/publisher digital copyright skills checklist

List of boxes

2.1 Case study 1: Digital revolution -

2.2 Case study 2: Digital revolution -

3.1 Case study 3: Iceland, a country immersed in books

4.1 Case study 4: OECD study on computers and learning.

4.2 COVID-19 and digital tools in education

5.1 Case study 5: J.K. Rowling

5.2 Case study 6: Romance writers in the United States

List of figures

2.1 Title page of the first edition of Encyclopædia Britannica

5.1 Trade publishing value chain

5.2 Educational publishing value chain

5.3 Scholarly publishing value chain.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Staff, World Intellectual Property Organization From Paper to Platform: Publishing, Intellectual Property and the Digital Revolution

ISBN:

9789280533118

9280533118

9789280533101

928053310X

OCLC:

1348483058