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Case
Studies
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page is under construction.
We'll shortly be highlighting a range of industry case
studies. In the interim the following may be of interest,
especially if consumed with a dash of salt.
Encyclopaedias
- an account of how the US Macmillan group is transforming
their print encyclopedias to a variety of electronic
products.
A useful point of reference is Fred Moody's I
Sing The Body Electronic (New York, Viking 95), an
insiders view of Microsoft's transformation of the cruddy
Funk & Wagnalls encyclopaedia into Encarta
during the period before Mr Gates discovered that the web
was a Microsoft product. Adios Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Medical
Texts - a less starry-eyed account of how a major US
scientific & technical publisher is exploiting its
(very big) niche as it goes online
Scholarly
electronic publishing - a 1996 paper by Peter McKay of
Academic Press, leading scientific publisher
Atoms
To Bits - science publisher John Wiley discovers
Negroponte's 'atoms to bits' mantra
Stuart Peters' First Monday article
of September 00 described experience in developing an
electronic journal subscription model for Sociological
Research Online
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