Eco System for Information Co Creation (and simple creating/consuming)

• need to add breadth later, for now focusing on the reading aspects

• see also Business Models For Information

All info is already digital at some point

• even if rendered back to analog like Printed Book

• except unrecorded Live Event? even that has lots of digital action

Multi Media is still important, and becoming cheaper to produce/distribute.

• though most of it so far is just a shiny downgrade from Text.

But written info still crucial

• easier to auto search/scan/categorize

• easier to browse/scan and quote (MashUp)

• easier to distribute/store for MobIle

Reading moving to digital/screen (already maybe a majority?).

MobIle devices increasingly important

• communication: voice, IM, EMail

• ref info: yellow pages, maps

• reviews: products, movies, restaurants

So MobIle reading becomes more natural. And want to use converged device: small, multi-purpose, not dedicated or LapTop.

• but want to easily read same book on multi devices (UbiComp) z2008-01-17- Harris Perfect Ebook Reader

  • ideally "keep your place" in synch

But there are still reasons for people to stick with the Printed Book

• it won't stop working when there's a format change, or your hard disk crashes, or you buy a new MobIle, or you somehow break the EULA, etc.

• some people like physical books in their environment (small % of population, but driving large % of book sales)

EBook-s will evolve to fit the resulting reading style, which is already changing during DeskTop use.

Fiction may change less

• NovEl will still get written

• Annotation Systems could be increasingly important

  • Neal Stephenson, [James Joyce], Michael Chabon, historical fiction

• series/Fran Chise model will expand: [Hardy Boys], Star Trek, wartech guy

  • [Sub Genre], Virtual Community, real Commun Ity, [Real World Game], Location Based Service...

• more shorter fiction will be published

Non Fiction will change more

• Thin Book (and Wiki Pedia), Meta Book

• HowTo

• Hyper Book, integrated into Annotation Systems

• maybe EBook-s won't really be finished/packaged/delivered objects as often, but more of a process, an anchor for a Virtual Community?

  • if people will pay $20 to read The World Is Flat will they pay $20 (instead) for a year in a Virtual Community

  • does it make sense to have a "separate" community for each book? Or organized by niche, and that's the new "publisher" model as in z2007-06-15- Shatzkin Future Book Industry? It probably depends a lot on what each system looks like. It's easy to just munge together Discussion Forum-s, but when you throw in a Hyper Book and Annotation Systems, you might need more clear distinction between foci.

  • and how does the reader/member maintain their involvement with multiple spaces over time? And what about the risk of a space going away (like the Neal Stephenson MetaWeb)?

• [Open Science]/[Open Notebook Science]/[Open Source Science] (Feb'2007 update from Sept'2006 link )

Will most books start as EBook and then some will become Printed Book-s? Some will have tiny runs based on aggregated pre-orders with direct fulfillment or Print On Demand, a small number of online hits will go through standard-current distribution. (Publish Then Filter... [Then Publish]

• and more work/value will be added during that packaging process.

  • a human editor will help massage the text. Maybe significant re-writing will happen. (Will it be re-tested via EBook before committing to print?)

  • illustrations, cover, etc. will be created/improved

  • layout/design will be worked on (to the extent that it matters)

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