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Areas of Experimentation

   Trade  Higher Ed  Reference  STM
 Product
  • Courseware
  • Custom editions
  • Sales by chapter
  • Focus on student and professor workflows
  • "Service" oriented products
  • Develop communities around content verticals
  •  Extra-supplementary material
 Formats / Platforms
  • Online audio delivery
  • Platform consolidation problematic
  • Single platform for user
  • Authormapper (mash-up application) - end-user applications using metadata  
  • Related documents
 Channels
  • Intermediated sales
  • Open web databases
  • Channel integration initiatives (driving open web traffic to subscribing libraries)

 

 Business model
  • Ad supported (e.g. Wowio)
  • Tie access fees into tuition
  • Ad supported free web sites
  • Advertising supported content
 Internal workflows
 
  • Mass customized designs
  • XML-native workflows
  • Content tagging
  • Digital first product development
  • Content tagging
  • Content tagging
  • Online first workflows