L'impacte de les noves tecnologies en el sector editorial

Abstract

Recerca sobre la situació actual del sector editorial a partir de l'aparició dels diferents dispositius electrònics de lectura. Una visió general dels canvis que ha viscut aquest sector, la presencia de la industria a Internet i els diferents aspectes dels dispositius electrònics de lectura com el format, preus i els drets digitals.

This project is a descriptive research work about the situation of the publishing industry due to the /nchanges that has suffered because of new technologies, particularly due to the rise of the electronic /nreading devices such as e-readers and tablets. It is a summary of the changes suffered by this sector, the presence of the publishing industry on the Internet and different aspects of e-reading such as their format, the price of books and the devices and the digital rights management. Moreover, we /nfocus on the characteristic aspects of e-readers and the main models that can be found in the /nmarket and also an overview in the particular case of Amazon's Kindle and the library model /ncreated by Google Books. After this exploration and the results extracted of the survey made, we /nnotice that readers have not increased their reading habits because of the digital devices but they are /nliving an stabilizing situation after these important changes and the data show that readers have not /nforgotten traditional books and in the future these devices will change again becoming different /ndevices or ways of reading.