Publishing 2012 World Bank/George Washington University, Mexico City, Feb 2007

Preparing for the Future: Digital Strategies for Publishers Day 2

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Changing Landscape of Technical Infrastructure, continued New players in fundamental IT infrastructure: Amazon, Google, Sun, Yahoo, or local businesses who can provide server, applications, and services over Ethernet New options: outsource (without charge) book presentation and sales to Google Book Search, Amazon, etc. New options: purchase/use services (Book Treasurehouse for online catalog, Lulu, for print on demand. New options: purchase in-house solutions, by using offshore programmers New options: partner with Ebrary, NetLibrary, etc. New options: build own Spanish-language consortium/collective like the above

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