Electronic Publishing Versus Publishing Electronically: The Case of EC World C A Forum for the 21st Century

Electronic journals today typically serve as on-line counterparts of their paper based versions, providing abstracts, manuscript tracking, and announcements of forthcoming issues (see Denning 1995; Jog 1995). Some e-journals and magazines also provide “live” materials such as audio/video clips, basic World Wide Web interactivity, or even customization of content and presentation. However, a majority of these ventures seek to use the Internet and the Web as an efficient medium of content distribution and presentation. It thus appears that the broadcast model of television (O’Reilly 1996) has been most widely adopted by the creators of e-journals (Chellappa, Barua and Whinston 1996a). However, the global scope of the Internet and the open nature of its applications enable us to rethink the publishing process itself and to redesign the way content is created (i.e., authored, reviewed, validated, and published). In other words, publishing electronically (making content available on-line without changing processes that support content creation) is not the same as electronic publishing, which seeks to redesign the processes themselves. True electronic publishing can lead not only to improved knowledge dissemination, but can also help create new knowledge through successive refinement and longitudinal argument-based interactions between authors, readers, and other experts

Electronic commerce and networked libraries

This paper discusses about e-commerce, its origin, how networked libraries plays its role in e-commerce and its applications like electronic payment system through e-cash, cyber cash, smart cards etc. And what all are the problems in electronic payment systems, in India how e-commerce works and problems in Indian context etc

Measuring Consumer Motivations to Use Marketspace

Participation in electronic commerce requires the diffusion of new technologies and techniques among the intended new electronic customers. This paper utilizes the theoretical perspective of uses and gratifications to develop measures of consumer motivations for access and use of the Internet, which is an important diffusion issue that precedes the decision to engage in electronic commerce. Motivations for the use of new commercial technology are the underlying factors that ultimately lead to the acceptance and subsequent diffusion of new commercial practices in consumer markets. Produced with the cooperation of America Online and HotWired, this research reports the results of a measure development study for three key measures that assess consumer adoption and use of commercial Internet services: Internet process motivations, Internet content motivations and Internet social motivations

A hierarchy fuzzy MCDM method for studying electronic marketing strategies in the information service industry

In this paper the impacts of Electronic Commerce {EC) on the international marketing strategies for the information service industries are studied. In seeking to blend humanistic concerns in this research with technological development by addressing challenges for deterministic attitudes, it also examines critical environmental factors relevant to Internet commerce in the changes of the international marketing environment. The needs for a new marketing paradigm for EC, which comes out of new trends of international electronic marketing, are also examined. The impacts of EC for the information service industry are discussed and a hierarchy fuzzy multicriteria decision-making (Fuzzy MCDM) method for evaluating the propagating EC market strategies is proposed. Finally, in order to show the practicability and usefulness in this method, an example is taken as a verifiable method. From the results of practical applications in evaluating the electronic marketing strategies, the proposed method is appropriate and appears to be ideal for a fuzzy environment

Online Newspapers: Why They Remain Online

In order to understand what lies behind the phenomenon of online newspapers, this study takes a qualitative approach through interviews with online newspaper managers. In addition to attempting to determine if online newspapers had become profitable business ventures, this study explored the benefits, other than possible profit, that support the decision to keep the newspapers online and what online newspaper managers see as the next evolutionary steps of online newspapers. Interviews with thirteen online newspaper managers were conducted by phone. The interview guide consisted of open-ended questions covering eight topic areas. Online managers, recruited from Editor and Publisher Year Books and through referrals of other interviewees, were selected from mid-size daily newspapers (print circulation of 75,000 - 250,000), owned by large parent companies, that have had an online presence for at least five years. Although one interviewee reported trying to figure this thing out since \u2794, findings indicate online managers are knowledgeable of the consumer trends and industry practices currently common throughout the online newspaper industry today, as well as the uniqueness of their local market and the need to adapt their online newspaper to meet their audience\u27s needs. However, even as revenue from online newspaper operations continues to grow, online managers share a general concern about the ability of the industry to respond to technological advancements and competition in a timely manner. The online newspaper managers participating in this study reported that their online publications were profitable and that the publications remain online not only as an outlet for advertising to reach people, but because they extend the newspaper brand; online newspapers attract a different audience, one that is not reading the print newspaper; they are accessible twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and can provide breaking news; they provide value to the community as a forum to consume news and communicate with one another; they can relate to users in a variety of ways; and they are seen as more than a newspaper to many people because they provide news in addition to being a source of other information and a resource. In the future, online managers believe the push for increased advertising revenue will continue; the increased use of broadband will pave the way for increased interactivity on the websites; user-contributed content will play a bigger role; technological developments will continue to influence how people get their news; and individuals will increasingly customize their news experience to receive only the information or topics that interest them. Online manager’s main concern revolved around competition. While some looked at it in terms of continuing to increase audience numbers and advertising revenue in light of other options available to news consumers, others looked at it in terms of not knowing who or what the next competitor will look like and if the industry would react fast enough

Printed newspapers and on-line news : a study of the factors influencing consumer acceptance of electronic news via the internet.

Thesis (M.Com.)-University of Durban-Westville, 2001.The aim of this study was to determine the factors influencing readership of electronic news via the Internet. The status of printed news in the changing news environment was also investigated in the light of increasing electronic news readership. In order to achieve this aim, current electronic news readers were probed on their Internet news readership. The findings indicated that although traditional printed news was still very widely read, the shift amongst Internet users seemed to be towards reading more electronic news in the future. This study found that the two most significant factors that will lead to an increase in electronic news readership are the following: • This medium being accessed free of charge, i.e. where no monthly Internet subscriptions need to be paid. This has been achieved through free Internet access via ABSA since 16 February 2001; and • an improvement in the speed of access. The fact that traditional printed newspapers can be read in an informal environment seemed to be the single most important factor in maintaining its popularity

The Dynamics of Cyberspace: Examining and Modelling Online Social Structure

It has been proposed that online social structures represent new forms of organizing which are fundamentally different from traditional social structures. However, while there is a growing body of empirical research that considers behavioral aspects of online activity, research on online social structure structural remains largely anecdotal. This work consists of three papers that combine previous studies of traditional social structures, empirical analysis of longitudinal data from a sample of Internet listservs, and computational modeling to examine the dynamics of social structure development in networked environments. The first paper (Title: When is a Group not a Group: An Empirical Examination of Metaphors for Online Social Structure) empirically examines the appropriateness of metaphors which have been used in popular and academic discussions of online social structure. The structural features implied by the metaphors are compared with data from a random sample of e-mail based Internet listservs. The results indicate that the most commonly applied metaphor (\u27small group\u27) does not accurately represent the membership and communication features observed in these online social structures. Furthermore, there is evidence that the characterization of online structures in these terms has significantly biased the selection of cases and stories in the current literature. The empirical results also suggest that the metaphor of\u27 voluntary associations\u27 is more accurate and hence is better foundation for theorizing about online social structure. In the second paper (Title: Membership Size, Communication Activity, and Sustainability: The Internal Dynamics of Networked Social Structures) presents a resource-based theory of social structures. This model implies that structural features, such as size and communication activity, play both positive and negative roles in the sustainability of a social structure. Prior work has argued that networked communication technologies will significantly reduce the negative impact of size and communication activity, resulting in fundamentally different social structures. However, analysis of the longitudinal data from the e-mail based Internet listservs indicates that size and communication activity continue to have both positive and negative effects. This suggests that while the use of networked communication technologies may alter the form of communication, balancing the positive and negative impacts of membership size and communication activity remains a fundamental problem underlying the development of sustainable social structures. The third paper (Title: Communication Cost, Attitude Change and Membership Maintenance: A Model of Technology and Social Structure Development) integrates processes of individual belief change and member movement in a dynamic model of online social structure development. Contributed messages create a composite signal, providing members with information about the benefits of membership. This information changes members\u27 beliefs about the structure and affects their willingness to remain members. The processes of communication, individual belief change, and membership maintenance form a cycle that underlies the development of the collective. Communication costs, a feature of the communication infrastructure, affect a social structure\u27s development by moderating the process of member belief change. A dynamic, multi-agent computational model of social structure development was implemented, calibrated, and validated using the listserv data. Analysis of the model implies that reduced communication costs, as are expected in networked environments, slow down the development process, resulting in online social structures which have more (and more diverse) members while being less stable than traditional face-to-face associations

Development of an industrial marketing framework for SME’s: a game industry case study

This study provides a complete coverage of the current status of the video game business and digital distribution through explanation of business models, and a focus on Finnish market with one case example. Literature review was done completely to provide a foundation for the reader to understand the business environment of Finland and how different parts of the value chain function. In addition to that, a case study was completed through an interview with a SME to present a practical example of the firm’s approach in marketing their product. To initiate this study, video game business in today’s world was analyzed followed by market and industry trends globally. Value chain in different aspects of the industry were discussed with factors and influential elements. Small and medium sized businesses were discussed along with their characteristics, after that different business models for video games were elaborated. In the final chapter, Finnish game market was through analyzed and the roles of different players and stakeholders were described. Video game business has evolved drastically in all aspect from technical aspects to business aspects. Finland has a very special place in this multibillion business, introducing many titles which are household names right now. This has created the desire for many new comers to enter the market, their success in the market depends on the quality of their product as well as a fitting business model