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Que tiempos aquellos es lo que todo el mundo hacía un manifiesto cuando quería decir algo… ahora nos conformamos con un blogito ;-). En fin aquí tenéis el número 1 del manifiesto para la centuria 21 ;-). Esta es la parte una, -la que iniciamos reproducción abajo- pero hay más que son:

A book publisher’s manifesto for the 21st century

A book publisher’s manifesto - Part II

A book publisher’s manifesto - Part III

A book publisher’s manifesto- Part IV

A book publisher’s manifesto - Part V

A book publisher’s manifesto - Part VI (The End)

 Y por último el Manifesto Download

Over the next few days I am going to blog a piece I have written for a US-based library journal, Library Trends, on how traditional publishers need to position themselves in the changing media flows of a networked era. It’s a very long article so I’m gonna serialise it and blog it in six ‘bite-sized’ chunks over six days. Here’s the introduction, which aims to set the picture. Scary.

Print sales are falling. According to the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2007 report To Read or Not to Read both reading standards and voluntary reading rates of traditional print material amongst young people are falling. Textbook publishers are fighting for sales; campaigning to alert students to the necessity of using their products. Hardback fiction has almost gone the way of the dinosaur. The open access debate rages on. Publishers and retailers have consolidated. More and more books are produced, but there is less and less choice on the high street. Leisure time is transferring away from books and reading, away from television even, to the Web; to social networking sites, blogs, instant messaging, video and music file sharing sites. The attention economy is shrinking, fast. Academic research is – for many students – all about search. Let’s face it, for most students, actually, it’s all about Google. Who needs books anymore? More to the point, who needs publishers?

In an ‘always on’ world in which everything is increasingly digital, where content is increasingly fragmented and ‘bite-sized’, where ‘prosumers’ merge the traditionally disparate roles of producer and consumer, where search replaces the library and where multimedia mash-ups – not text - holds the attraction for the digital natives who are growing up fast into the mass market of tomorrow, what role do publishers still have to play and how will they have to evolve to hold on to a continuing role in the writing and reading culture of the future? Will there even be a writing and reading culture as we know it, tomorrow? Is the publishing industry acting fast enough and working creatively enough to adapt to the new information and leisure economies? (…)

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