In next 5 years magazine industry will loose 35% of its revenue but by 2020 the industry will recover because of digital delivery. By then industry will be changed completely and will be 58% digital, as opposed to 10% now. Digital will overtake magazine print by 2016 and this will make it easier to enter the market.
Book industry will continue to grow slowly through 2020. Digital will grow 36% in 2014 and end up at 60% by 2020.
Expect prices to drop to $50 by 2020. Color display technology development will be especially important and will replace black and white displays by 2015 and by 2020 95% of all displays will be color. Flexible displays will replace rigid displays and will allow the reader to be rolled or folded. Will fall into 3 categories: rigid displays; bendable displays, which will be seen this year; rollable and foldable displays, and will take 7% of the market by 2020.
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Вы их читаете, а они следят за тем, как вы это делаете и меняются в зависимости от этого.
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Точка зрения дизайнера. Весьма взвешенная и позитивная.
Earlier this week I attended the O%u2019Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) Conference for the first time. Over 1250 attendees gathered in New York City to discuss and network about issues and trends in publishing, in particular, digital publishing. While much of the information presented was for the publishing industry, I did manage to find several great ideas and concepts that relate to libraries. I%u2019d like to share these with you, in no apparent order.
I downloaded the Logos iPhone app during Bob’s talk so that I could have a better feel for what he was describing. You might think it’s nothing more than an ebook reader like Stanza but there’s more to it than that. It comes with a number of books built in, including a few Bibles. If you’re using one translation and you wonder what the same verse looks like in another translation, just touch the verse number, select one of your other Bibles and the app takes you right to that same verse.
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Пару слов о личном. В прошлом году я совершил в своей жизни научно-техническую революцию: перешел на букридер. Трудно было первые три часа: смена страниц в букридере происходит через черное поле, к этому надо привыкнуть. Зато в остальном — одни плюсы: в сто грамм веса помещается примерно этаж Публичной библиотеки, синхронизация проста, можно менять размер шрифтов, к тому же без подзарядки мой украинско-тайваньский Pocketbook 301 работает больше месяца. Он был выбран по совету специалиста за неприхотливость и форматную всеядность.
Although I’m as excited as the next guy by the coming Apple Tablet, I really don’t think it will change the world for ebooks. It’s too big, too heavy, too expensive, and likely to be too consumptive of battery power to be a better ereader for most people than a Kindle, a Sony Reader, an iPhone, or one of the many other devices announced last week at CES. My own hunch is that the Tablet won’t be as powerful a catalyst for ebooks as the Kindle was or the iPhone has been.
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В общем — логично. Чем беднее страна, тем более она готова к восприятию новых технологий. Примерно так же, как с VoIP в “третьем мире”.