Disruption and Disintermediation in the Digital Age
An AHRC Digital Transformations
Research Development Project
AH/J01317X/1
Project Partners
University of Stirling
PI: Professor Claire Squires
Co-Is: Dr Paula Morris
& Dr Padmini Ray Murray
Project Assistants: Helen Lewis-McPhee,
Louisa Preston & Aileen-Elizabeth Taylor
External Partners
Scott Russell Publishing Services
Electric Bookshop www.bookunbound.stir.ac.uk
@stirpublishing @clairesquires @praymurray

The Book Unbound focused on how publishing is reacting to the advent of digital technologies , and on the constantly changing relationships in the book trade as it moves from print and paper to digital ink and screen.
Seismic shifts are resulting in emergent business models that challenge the prevailing hierarchies of cultural gatekeeping , as well as developing new modes of authorship , and reshaping perceptions of the book as cultural artifact .
The traditional publishing value chain traces the trajectory of intellectual property from author to reader, where publishing activities such as editorial, marketing and design are all performed by the publisher. Now, this process is being disrupted and disintermediated at every stage .
Traditional to Digital Communications Circuit

We explored the impact of the digital age on publishing through two modes of enquiry, both of which fed into a series of infographics depicting changing models of publishing:
Case studies of And Other Stories,
Blasted Heath, Canongate TV, Faber
Factory and Guardian Books, focusing on business models created in response to technological change.
Experimental enquiry via the research, development and making of a digital publication ( Borderlines ) for the iPad, using Adobe Digital
Publishing Suite.

Electric Bookshop showcase
Publishing Scotland conference 2013
The Bookseller
‘Forward Thinking: Indies
Tackle Digital Straight On’
Book 2.0
‘The Digital Publishing
Communications Circuit’
Borderlines the app

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin

Taleist Survey: Not a Gold Rush http://blog.taleist.com/2012/05/24/report-self-publishing-survey/

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/what-the-new-penguin-random-house-logo-might-look-like/

http://www.andotherstories.org/about/11-commandments/

http://www.kobobooks.com/readinglife

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weq_sHxghcg