Re: Article in Wired - from Web to apps

[Steve Hitchcock <sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Interesting article and opening chart
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1

The app essentially hands back a degree of control over the 
packaging, and hence value, to the content provider. This is why 
the the article, particularly the part by Michael Wolff, plays 
off old vs new media.

In terms of impact on scholarly communication, and my interest of 
green open access through repositories, this is likely to 
strengthen the distinction between this content and value-added 
publishing. So that's not the most significant change. Our focus 
has always been on universal access. For those who want to 
compete with value-added publishers, or those who think that the 
serials crisis and the recession, the switch to digital, etc., 
may give them a controlling hand on prices, they may need to 
rethink that strategy.

Steve Hitchcock
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On 19 Aug 2010, at 04:19, Joseph Esposito wrote:

> Important if cheeky article in Wired on the "post-Web Internet":
> http://j.mp/9XxSOD.  The thesis is that more and more Internet
> usage is taking place outside of browsers, hence not on the Web
> at all. This has large implications for scholarly communications,
> as many modes of dissemination are not open at all, but closed
> and proprietary.  The Apple iPad is Exhibit A.
>
> Joe Esposito