| Author: |
Mark Bide, Executive Director
of EDItEUR, a Director of Rightscom, and a
Visiting Professor of the University of the Arts London |
| doi: |
10.3789/isqv23n2.2011.06 |
| Citation: |
Bide, Mark. The Challenge for Standards in the E-book Supply Chain. Information Standards Quarterly, 2011 Spring 23(2):25-30. |
| Annotation: |
The e-book supply chain is complicated—and is unlikely to get simpler any time
soon. What do I mean by "the supply chain"? I mean the whole process that gets
an e-book from author to reader—the only two really important points in the whole
chain. Without authors who willingly write and readers who willingly read, there
would be no supply chain to worry about. But our primary focus in this article is
those intermediaries who add value in the process from author to reader. Ask any
author who has stood on a street corner trying to sell (or even to give away) copies
of a manuscript to passers-by. The process which gets a book from author to
readers adds value. |
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