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Open Consultation Workshop on Building Digital Educational
Content Marketplaces: A Generational Opportunity for Publishing.
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Today’s streamlined publishing and distribution
models for educational text books and materials, conceived
in the age of non-digital broadcasting and mass distribution,
are coming of age.
Educational Publishing needs to adopt more
open and standard architectures, formats and distribution
models - effectively blending free and published content offerings
through innovative business models - so as not to leave anybody
behind in the global need for more accessible and sustainable
educational resources.
This
represents a generational opportunity for Educational Publishing.
It will reward those who are smart enough to catch the innovation
wave, reshape their models and, so, result in sustainable
business paradigms and models. Publishers who fail to evolve
in the new digital content marketplace risk emulating many
of their former colleagues in the Music Publishing Industry.
That industry has seen many stakeholders lose their copyrights
and legacy products, while struggling to adapt their business
models to the tunes-orientated distribution paradigms which
hit the music industry during the digital revolution of the
late ‘90s.
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