Digital Book Publishing in the Future

Technological, economical, and practical perspectives

Seminar Programme

Brief introduction to iMinds & the ‘Publisher of the Future’ project Wesley De Neve (iMinds – MMLab – Ghent University)

Putting the shop back into shopping: selling books in a digital age

Davy Hanegreefs (Boek.be)

Industrial aspects of digital book distribution Olivier Braet (iMinds – SMIT – Free University of Brussels)

Next steps for digital book authoring and publishing Tom De Nies (iMinds – MMLab – Ghent University)

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iMinds

Research institute founded in 2004 by the Flemish government, with the aim to create lasting economic

and social value through ICT innovation

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iMinds: A Virtual Research Institute

Leverages the strengths of 5 universities, 20 research groups, and more than 800 researchers

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iMinds’ Research Departments

ICT

Media

Health

Energy Smart Cities

Manu-facturing

Future Internet Department

Digital Society Department

Future Media & Imaging Department

Security Department

Future Health Department

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From Idea to Business: Our Innovation Toolbox

5+ years …1 year Time-to-market

Strategic research

Incubation & entrepreneurship

Applied research

Pre-competitive testing

Knowledge-driven Explorative Basics for applied research

Training & coaching

Financing

Facilities

Networking

Internationali-zation

Business-driven Interdisciplinary Cooperative Demand-driven Proof of Concept ICON projects

Large-scale user trials & living labs Evaluate technical feasibility Simulations

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Example Project: Publisher of the Future

Project on accelerating technological and business modeling innovation in the Flemish book sector

Boek.be: umbrella organization for the book sector

iMinds: research institute for ICT innovation

Budget: 4 FTEs, from July 2012 till June 2016

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Budget Responsibility Partner 2 FTEs Technological innovation iMinds (UGent - MMLab) 1 FTE Business modeling innovation iMinds (VUB - SMIT) 1 FTE Project management & promotion Boek.be

(*) Cooperative research: 80% of funding by government, 20% of funding by book sector

Publisher of the Future: Operational Organization

To achieve the innovation goals, demand-driven pilot projects are defined with a duration of one year

metadata and data modeling

authoring and enrichment value chain modeling

streaming business models

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Davy Hanegreefs (Boek.be) Olivier Braet (iMinds)

Tom De Nies (iMinds)