Abstract

There is no question that digital media present a disruptive change to the centuries-old publishing business. As one of the world’s oldest media industries, the legacy publishing business becomes increasingly vulnerable to technological disruption and emergent business innovation. Amazon Kindle eBooks, probably the most widely discussed “giant disruption”(Filloux, 2012) to traditional publishing, has caused great fear and anxiety among publishers, as it would unravel the publishing industry and disrupt “key components of the food chain such as deal structures and distribution arrangements”. Even though the legacy publishers have survived eBook disruption, publishing veterans attribute this to luck instead of a solid strategy (Ross, 2016). To them, it is not “the time to sit back and hope the status quo will last” as the publishing industry might not weather the next wave of digital disruption with “such good fortune …

Metadata

publication

The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy. London: SAGE, 301-324, 2022

year

2022

publication date

2022/9/23

authors

Xiang Ren

link

https://www.torrossa.com/gs/resourceProxy?an=5409560&publisher=FZ7200#page=354

resource_link

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiang-Ren-12/publication/370609505_Understanding_the_Digital_Publishing_Economy_From_eBook_Disruption_to_Platform_Ecosystem/links/668e1231c1cf0d77ffc8d635/Understanding-the-Digital-Publishing-Economy-From-eBook-Disruption-to-Platform-Ecosystem.pdf

journal

The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy. London: SAGE

pages

301-324