« Ceci tuera cela » ? Dynamique des changements dans l'industrie du livre

Christian Longhi and Sylvie Rochhia

Revue d'économie industrielle, 2014, vol. n° 145, issue 1, 121-154

Abstract: After centuries of apparent immobility, the book industry is experiencing profound changes. With the development of ICT, e-commerce and e-book, it entered a phase of reorganization, underpinned by the emergence of new markets, new actors, new knowledge bases and technologies that have significantly changed its boundaries. The e-Readers, generalized in 2009 by Amazon and the tablets, appeared in 2011 with the iPad, have created more upheavals than centuries of production. The e-book was initially considered as a ?homothetic book?, but in fact this digitization quickly broke the model content-container. This dissociation might be the innovation able to change the book industry, seen as a sectoral system of innovation and production. The article shows the contents, and not just containers, are at the heart of current dynamics of change.

Keywords: Information and Communication Technologies; Internet; Book Industry; Sectoral System of Innovation and Production; e-books (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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