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specialists Agents Digital publishing in
the developed world

Reading Distribution–Retail Production
Personal Computer Price points Web- Small, flexible
computers labs Aggregators Ebook familiar authors suppliers
Internet retailers In-house
Netbooks Content- True POD
cafés Institutional share sites skills
e-ink repositories providers
readers Mobile Marketing/ DAM Digital
www/Java Publisher consumer products printers
Smartphones websites education
Print (on Book-based Conversion
Android iPhone services
demand) Bandwidth social networks
Payment systems Innovators Markets
Premium Direct Individuals Large Leisure
SMS credit card corporations readers School
SMEs system
Mobile Business/
Paypal, training
payments Google Startups Tertiary
Checkout etc. (VC model) students
Academic/
research
Rights Industry bodies
Open Publishers’ Retailers’
Rights licensing associations associations
aggregators Public
domain law Library Printing
associations associations
Perceptions
of piracy Enforcement Standards Consumer
Rights agencies bodies associations
specialists Agents Digital publishing in
the developing world

Reading Distribution–Retail Production
Personal Computer Price points Web- Small, flexible
computers labs Aggregators Ebook familiar authors suppliers
Internet retailers In-house
Netbooks Content- True POD
cafés Institutional share sites skills
e-ink repositories providers
readers Mobile Marketing/ DAM Digital
www/Java Publisher consumer products printers
Smartphones websites education
Print (on Book-based Conversion
Android iPhone services
demand) Bandwidth social networks
Payment systems Innovators Markets
Premium Direct Individuals Large Leisure
SMS credit card corporations readers School
SMEs system
Mobile Business/
Paypal, training
payments Google Startups Tertiary
Checkout etc. (VC model) students
Academic/
research
Rights Industry bodies
Open Publishers’ Retailers’
Rights licensing associations associations
aggregators Public
domain law Library Printing
associations associations
Perceptions
of piracy Enforcement Standards Consumer
Rights agencies bodies associations
specialists Agents Digital publishing in
the developing world

Reading Distribution–Retail Production
Personal Computer Price points Web- Small, flexible
computers labs Aggregators Ebook familiar authors suppliers
Internet retailers In-house
Netbooks Content- True POD
cafés Institutional share sites skills
e-ink repositories providers
readers Mobile Marketing/ DAM Digital
www/Java Publisher consumer products printers
Smartphones websites education
Print (on Book-based Conversion
Android iPhone services
demand) Bandwidth social networks
Payment systems Innovators Markets
Premium Direct Individuals Large Leisure
SMS credit card corporations readers School
SMEs system
Mobile Business/
Paypal, training
payments Google Startups Tertiary
Checkout etc. (VC model) students
Academic/
research
Rights Industry bodies
Open Publishers’ Retailers’
Rights licensing associations associations
aggregators Public
domain law Library Printing
associations associations
Perceptions
of piracy Enforcement Standards Consumer
Rights agencies bodies associations
specialists Agents

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