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Media
Google Books - full text will be available on-line ($125m paid to settle class action and set up Book Rights Registry to distribute royalties - Google to keep 37% cut of all transactions.)
Quality newspapers going Tabloid (metropolitan areas only?)
Public Service Broadcasting - Ofcom review
UK government review of Television Licence fees (which currently funds the BBC)
NY Times publishes pages of translated articles in weekend editions of Le Monde and El País
Free sheets (Metro launched in New York, Bordeaux [May 2004] and UK regional cities)
Technology
Search Engine Optimisation
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
Cross Media Publishing
Digital Print
 | Read "The potential of Digital Print" on Strategy Page |
e-paper (also known as: digital paper, electronic ink)
| Read "Stop the presses! Roll out the e-papers" |
Digital TV
| including: Free-to-Air (BBC-led), and government policy to switch off analogue TV |
PVRs [Personal Video Recorders] and personalised TV schedules
Digital Asset Management
Security
| Cyber-terrorism, viruses/worms, denial-of-service attacks, fraud |
Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Planning
Utility Computing
| renting computing power and software applications as a commodity (akin to utilities like gas, electricty and water). |
Broadband and ubiquitous Internet access
| responsiveness, viable audio and video and "always on", leading to changing audience behaviour). |
Mobile and Wireless computing (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G)
| new publishing channels? |
Open Source Software (Linux, Apache, Mozilla, GNU)
Business issues
Online profitability (Online revenues, Production efficiencies)
Classified Advertising migrating to web?
Round-the-clock publishing
IPR / Digital Rights Management [DRM]
| Piracy |
Outsourcing (inc. Offshore outsourcing)
Continuing decline in newspaper readership
CRM [Customer Relationship Management]
| limited knowledge of readers |