Decades ago book publishing is a huge issue both to the
writer and the publisher. If you can
still remember when the writer is spending months and years to finish their
manuscript for publishing, a lot of publishing processes needs to be addressed
for the realization of the book. As of
today academic textbooks are in the quality content evaluation from many famous
publishers around the world of academic industry.
As we can observe a
wide competition of academic writers are in connection with several publishing
companies with the purpose of publishing and marketing their book. At present Amazon Company is offering free
online publishing tools were by the general public will evaluate the quality of
your book content not the publishing company anymore. Profit of your published book would reach up
to 70 to 80 percent from the set price of the writer and Amazon.
From traditional book
content pattern, a possible content framework will emerge in this project due
to the fact that the nature of publishing the book is according the writer only
not following the traditional publishing framework implemented by the
publishing companies. The classic book
publishing is divided by units, chapters, and sub-chapters were in the reader
can conceptually forecast the flow of writing order of the books. On the other hand the writers have no option
as to how they are going to present their ideas according to their desired
format.
With the new program of Amazon, expected publishing formats
will evolve from writers in respect to the positive reaction from the
readers. Another concern that will
possibly arise in few years time is the piracy being widely executed across the
net. The online publication program of
Amazon is so venerable to online piracy and replication knowing that the P2P
sharing platform is just one click away.
The pros and cons that we can imagine towards this online
book publishing will be realized by book readers and writers as the evolution
of independent online book publishing will dominate the market. On the contrary, if this independent online
publishing will be globally successful in few years time what would be the
future for these academic textbook publishers who are enjoying the “cash-cow”
market situation in book publishing business.
Maybe, these famous publishing companies of today will shift from the
traditional publishing system towards the independent online publishing being
initiated by Amazon Company.
Finally, we can think that in the near future there are more
to books and e-books. Maybe in the near future book publishing is just like
Blogging that fellow writers with reciprocal interests can share and follow
their insights for the furtherance of the world knowledge focused on one
academic discipline. In connection to
this concept, the knowledge inside the World Wide Web will be richer than of
today. The knowledge and information
being added by the world public in wikis and other academic internet informative
platform is only a preliminary evolution of the future internet academic
knowledge management system.
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