Stimulus for II Innovation Break on e-Books (Barcelona e-Business Team)

1. e-Books

2. I’m a contribution
Benjamin Zander

3. Is this an eBook?

4. Could it be an eBook?

5. Is this an eBook?

6. Could it be an eBook?

7. Fully-integrated cross-searchable resource

8. 20% increase in e-resources purchasing in 2008

9. Data is unlikely to continue to be packaged in a way that
ressembles the print book format, especially in science.

10. Business models for eBooks are not yet sufficiently developed:
pricing and delivery models derived from print.

11. Change will happen if authors write books with eBooks in mind

12. Write eBooks vs Write eChapters

13. Users want to search, browse and find

14. XML ePUB PDF

15. Self-contained Communicated

16. Publisher’s role is to develop, nurture and legitimize talent

17. eBooks simply compile articles previously writen

18. HarperStudio offer authors 50-50 profit sharing

19. People didn’t know they needed it

20. I like the smell of the paper in a book

21. Online communities Digital natives

22. Traditional doctor-patient relationship has been lost