Creating Communities of Readers: The Role of Open APIs
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1) The document discusses how open APIs can help create communities of readers by connecting different e-reading platforms and sharing data. 2) It notes that while ebook revenue makes up only 1% of publishing currently, new tools that create communities have the potential to significantly increase the number of potential readers and connections between readers. 3) The document argues that open APIs can help publishing become a social network business by containing the rise of closed, proprietary platforms and allowing different services to interconnect
Creating Communities of Readers: The Role of Open APIs
- 1. Creating Communities of Readers: The Role of Open APIs Leonhard Dobusch Freie Universität Berlin – School of Business & Economics and stiftung neue verantwortung Frankfurt Digital Night October 10, 2012
- 2. Publishing as creating community New tools for creating community Openness is a feature
- 3. Publishing as creating community
- 4. „For unto every one that hath shall be given.” Bild: Raul654, CC-BY-SA, http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Gutenberg_Bible.jpg
- 5. What is popular becomes ever more popular. Bild: Raul654, CC-BY-SA, http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Gutenberg_Bible.jpg
- 8. (POTENTIAL) (POTENTIAL) READERS CONNECTIONS 5 10 10 45 15 105 Bild: Shirky, C. (2008), p. 27
- 9. New tools for creating community
- 10. Ebook revenue in Germany 2011: 1% € 38m 99%
- 17. „Readmill gets interesting when as many other e-book reading programs and devices as possible feed the Readmill central server with data.“ Felix Knoke, Spiegel Online
- 18. Openness is a feature
- 20. Competition of APIs API Competition of services
- 21. „Tear down this wall!“ Bild: Reagn White House Phtographs, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Reagan_giving_a_speech_at_the_Berlin_Wall,_Brandenburg_Gate,_Federal_Republic_of_Germany._June_12,_1987.jpg
- 22. The market is still out there. 1% 99%
- 23. API
- 25. Conclusion Publishing is a social network business New tools create new communities Open APIs to contain new giants