Digital Publishing and Trends

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Digital Publishing and Trends

• Founder Apabi Technology Limited
• Scarlet He
• Hong Kong 2008.6

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Contents

• Chinese Digital Publishing Environment
• Digital Publishing in China
• Digital Library Status quo
• Digital publishing Forecast

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Chinese Digital Publishing Environment
Global Netizen exceeded 1 billion, China has 0.2
billion
New Netizen rely Internet at all aspects of life
Digital publishing is growing rapidly.
News Publishing industry environment
Traditional news industry is challenged
Blogs, authorship and database are new publishing
mode
eBook, eNewspaper and eMagzine are widely
accepted.
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Chinese Digital Publishing Environment

• Young readers turn to Internet
• Online reading time has exceeded traditional
  reading time.
• Survey from CIPS (?????????)
• Paper book reading rate has been decreasing for 6
  years (China)

Unitminute/day
Internet is only growing reading medium.
Data fromCTR???? CNRS
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New Reading Device

• Manufactures are developing new reader devices
• New era e-ink technology foldable reader will
  present soon

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Digital publishing application in China

• The total amount of eBooks has exceeded 400,000
  titles.
• About 10,000 title increase each month now.
• More than 500 publish are doing digital
  publishing business
• About 30 well-known websites are providing eBook
  services, including Joyo (Amazon China).
• More than 3,700 libraries built Digital library
  in China.
• More than 100 overseas libraries built Chinese
  Digital library , including JULAC consortium,
  LCSD, Harvard University Yenching library, Oxford
  University library, Germany Berlin national
  library, Singapore national library, etc.

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Digital Publishing Development
Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Titles 1,100 20,000 54,000 140,925 200,000 250,000 400,000
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Publishers who involved in Digital publishing are
increasing

• The newly joint publishers of 2007 are more than
  50, the total amount is above 80

Digital Publishing Publishers
Simultaneously Publishing Publishers
Total amount of eBooks
Over 15 million incoming Publishers
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Digital Library Status Quo in China

• Three TRENDS
• ResourcesFrom one dimension to multi-dimension
• ServicesResources focus to Readers focus
• ModeFrom local service to ASP

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eBooks are more popular

• UniversityOver 80,000 titles teaching reference
  books Increasing reading rate Necessary
  resources
• Integrated with research project in K-12
  Education Field in China
• Participate in National Digital Library of the
  Ministry of Science and Technology
• Online borrowing via digital libraries by
  millions of citizens
• Billions of farmers remotely read the eBooks
  through the project of the Ministry of Culture.
• Used by Government?Enterprises?Hospitals?some
  units of army

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Chinese Full-text Newspaper database

• 200 newspaper publishers, more than 300
  newspapers, daily updated
• 500 newspapers will be available in the end of
  2008.
• Original layout full text retrieval
• Complete data in database
• Useful for researchers and librarys collection

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Chinese Full-text Reference Database

• This project is supervised and recommended by
  Hongkong University, Harvard University, Chicago
  University library, Princeton University library,
  Peking University Library and Fudan University
  Library
• Authorized with 2000 titles and about 500 titles
  are ready online now, including ???????,
  ????????.
• Complete system, elaborate selection, easy to
  use?interrelated knowledge
• Friendly interface, navigation, easy operation
• Special and useful tools for researchers

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Chinese Full-text Yearbook Database

• Cooperated with Yearbook Research Society of the
  Publishers Association of China and China
  Statistics Press
• Including Statistics Yearbooks, there will be
  1500 titles in the end of year 2008
• Complete system Integrate different types of
  yearbook resources
• Authoritative information database for the
  situation of country, province, industry, etc. in
  China
• Useful for education research, policy decision
  and information consultation.

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Chinese Art Museum database

• More than 100 expertises,10 years hard work
• 8 series in 2008
• China Art Museum
• China calligraphy Museum
• China folk custom art Museum
• China red art Museum
• China ancient design Museum
• China Century cover iconography design Museum
• Chinese characters Museum
• Tibet art Museum

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Digital publishing Technology Trends

• Related Technology
• typeset technology
• RIP output technology
• Font e technology
• Work Flow management technology
• New Technology
• Full-text search, data mining, semantic web,
  complex search over different resources(book?newsp
  aper?magazine)?content related
• individuality publish
• Web 2.0 technology
• - Ajax?Tag?Digg?RSS?IM?
• POD technology base on DRM
• Reading technology over different platform and
  devices
• DRM is the core technology for benign development
  of digital publishing

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Digital Publishing Forecast for 2012

• The well-know expertise team in digital
  publishing industry forecast the future of
  digital publishing industry
• The list of the experts
• Mr. Tony Ferguson Librarian, HKU Library
• Mr.?? Vice Director, China Academic Library
  Information System
• Mr.?? Vice Proprieter, Posts Telecom Press
• Mr.?? Vice Proprieter, China Machine Press
• Mr.??? Director of Information Department,
  Zhejiang Daily Group
• Mr.?? General Manager of Hangzhou net, Hangzhou
  Daily Press Group
• Mr.?? Professor of Beijing University
• Mr.?? General Manager, Xinhua Daily
• Mr.?? Librarian, Beijing University Library
• Mr.?? Vice general manager, Beijing Founder
  Apabi Technology Limited

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Digital Publishing Forecast for 2012

• 30
• More than30 mobile phone users will read eBooks
  and eNewspapers with their mobile phone.
• 70
• Publishing via different media become main stream
  in publication industry, more than 70 publishers
  in China will publish digital content
  synchronously.
• 80
• More than 80 of publishers in China will provide
  print on demand services by POD system.
• 90
• More than 90 of Newspaper publishers will
  produce the digital Newspapers.

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Digital Publishing Forecast for 2012

• 1 million
• The amount of eBooks will exceed 1million.
• 2 billion
• The eBook eNewspaper revenue will reach over 2
  billion from library and other organizations
  purchase.
• 5 billion
• The eBook eNewspaper revenue including relevant
  Ads. from Netizen and mobile phone users will
  reach over 5 billion.

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