What better way to tell about the time than a real “historical witness” – product of that time, for people time?! As such “witness” in this small researched book from 40s 20th century Charles Dickens “A Tale Two Cities”, published by “Blackie & Son Limited (London and Glasgow)”. Thanks book, it was possible touch on “wartime” publishing industry, consider main challenges faced industry expl...

Dual spacization of publishing means emergence of digital publishing in online and offline virtual environments along with analogue publishing. Analogue publishing is a kind of publishing that is produced in the form of physical printed writings as they appear in a single paper, single or many pages newspapers and magazines and books, writings on leaves and pieces of trees, natural skin and lea...

The aim of this paper is it to identify whether Australian media companies moved online with a clear business model in mind or in an ad-hoc manner. In-depth interviews were conducted with four Internet media managers from two large Australian media organisations. All four had been involved in Web publishing from its early stages and had extensive knowledge of the development of Web publishing i...

Most, if not all, academic librarians are by now familiar with the term “predatory publishing.” Beall in 2012 defined predatory publishers as “those that unprofessionally exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit,” often taking advantage of junior faculty and graduate students [1]. This problem has grown at an almost exponential rate. Whereas Beall identified 23 suspected predator...

This paper presents the approach of the ESPRIT project HyNoDe (EP 22160 Hypermedia News on Demand) towards a novel Personalised News-On-Demand (PNoD) Service. The HyNoDe Service Personalised feature refers to customisation of the service to suit individual needs and preferences of the clients based on the information filtering concept. The service addresses all the involved phases in the news p...

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In attempting to explain the recent changes in the economic activity undertaken by firms, Alfred Chandler (2000) has embraced the concept of ‘the Information Age’, contrasting with his earlier periodisation of the ‘Second Industrial Revolution’. The ‘Information Age’ is characterised as the contemporary period where the advent of information communications technologies (ICTs) has made possible ...

Critical success factor of e-commerce (EC) adoption is an important issue for developing countries. This research discusses the assessment indicators and impact factors for EC success. Combining literature review and expert investigation, four assessment indicators and ten impact factors are identified to be important for Chinese publishing companies. To test the relationship between the assess...

With the development of information technology, Internet has gradually become basis for human dissemination. The emergence this new dissemination and communication tool not only provides convenience efficiency modern educational publishing, but also rapidly strongly changes industrial structure logic publishing industry. sudden lockdown brought about by COVID-19 epidemic transformed education f...