Content Consumption (how is content consumed)

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How is content consumed globally? From my classes at Ambedkar University.

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PUBLISHING IN A GLOBALISED WORLD

LESSON 3 — CONTENT CONSUMPTION

POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PUBLISHING 2014

AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI

VIVEK MEHRA

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CONSUMPTION MECHANISMS

CONTENT CONSUMPTION

PRINT STILL RULES

PRINT SOLD DIGITALLY

OPPORTUNITY

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PRINT SOLD TRADITIONALLY

CONSUMPTION MECHANISMS

CONTENT CONSUMPTION

PRINT STILL RULES

WHAT IS PRINT TODAY

• Traditional book

• Traditional distribution

• Customized print product

• Customized delivery chain (tailored to end customer)

• Print on demand

• On demand availability

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TRADITIONAL PRINT

TRADITIONAL BOOK

• From publisher

• Consumed as a single user

• Consumed through a library

CUSTOM PRINT

• Content multi-sourced

• Follows path of traditional book

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CONSUMPTION MECHANISMS

CONTENT CONSUMPTION

CONSUMPTION MECHANISM

CONTENT CONSUMPTION

CONSUMER PREFERNCES

BRICK AND MORTAR

• Product moves physically across boundaries

• Time to consumer is variable and long

• Availability is questionable

• Multi level supply chain management

PRINT SOLD DIGITALLY

• Birth of online stores

• Faster in the hands of the consumer

• Savings transferred to consumer

• Option to rate content

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DELIVERY MECHANISM

CONTENT CONSUMPTION

DIGITAL IS NOT DIGITAL

DIGITAL PRODUCT

•PDF

•Tagged PDF

•ePub – standard for re-flowable content, created by International Digital

Publishing Forum

•Kindle (MOBI bought by Amazon in 2005)

•But are these all that exist…

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CONSUMPTION MECHANISMS

CONTENT CONSUMPTION

DIGITAL IS NOT DIGITAL

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Archos Diffusion,Broadband eBooks (BBeB), Comic Book

Archive file , Compiled HTML, DAISY – ANSI/NISO Z39.86,

DjVu, DOC , DOCX, EPUB, eReader, FictionBook (Fb2),

Founder Electronics, Hypertext Markup Language, iBook

(Apple), IEC 62448,KF8 (Amazon Kindle), Microsoft LIT,

Mobipocket, Multimedia eBooks, Newton eBook, Open

Electronic Package, Portable Document Format, Plain text

files, Plucker, PostScript, RTF, SSReader, TEBR, Text

Encoding Initiative, TomeRaider, Open XML Paper

Specification

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How are the formats performing?

CONSUMPTION MECHANISMS

CONTENT CONSUMPTION

DIGITAL IS NOT DIGITAL

• Pay-per-view, online only

• Pay-per-view downloaded to device (offline)

• Single device content

• Multi device content

• Searchable

• Annotatable

• Cut, paste, share, save

• License, owned (subscription)

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DISCUSSION: CONSUMPTION – PRINT OR

DIGITAL?

Key Takeaways

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