Digital Publishing Industry Research Articles

A digital resource copyright protection scheme based on blockchain cross-chain technology

With the expansion of the digital publishing industry, copyright infringement of digital resources has become increasingly rampant. Blockchain technology offers a promising solution for copyright protection of digital resources. However, existing copyright protection methods based on single-chain or consortium blockchains have disadvantages such as low system processing efficiency, poor scalability, and a lack of alignment with real-world business needs. To address the current challenges of blockchain technology in the field of copyright protection and establish a more effective solution for protecting digital resource copyrights, while also expanding the application of blockchain cross-chain technology and promoting its development, leveraging blockchain cross-chain theory, technology, and methods, a digital resource copyright protection scheme based on blockchain cross-chain technology was constructed. It outlines detailed processes for copyright registration, resource transactions, copyright modifications, and copyright enforcement. Furthermore, this copyright protection scheme was analyzed. The findings indicated that the blockchain cross-chain technology is suitable for digital resource copyright protection. The proposed copyright protection scheme can allow various stakeholders to better fulfill their roles, in addition to enhancing the overall maintainability and scalability of the blockchain system.

Transformation and development strategy of digital publishing marketing based on big data and fuzzy control algorithm

Digital publishing is the process of informatizing the content of traditional publishing. It not only involves the processing of information, but also includes the whole process of digital publishing enterprise management and operation. Compared with traditional publishing, digital publishing has a wider distribution channel with the advantages of more diverse forms and marketing aspects, the transition from traditional digital publishing to digital publishing has become an inevitable trend. But there are still many problems in digital publishing in our country. Including the transformation of digital copyright awareness and maintenance of digital copyright, the source and maintenance of digital publishing technology, and the scarcity of compound talent resources. In order to solve these problems, we must combine the digital publishing industry with modern information technology. This paper builds a digital market preference prediction model based on big data and fuzzy control algorithms. By analyzing and predicting each consumer’s usage information, the digital consumer market preference is obtained. This research uses big data and fuzzy control algorithms to build a consumer market preference estimation model for digital publishing transformation. Through the observation of the consumer market, it can promote digital companies to make effective decisions and conduct reasonable organizational analysis, which can further improve The development process of digital publishing transformation promotes the overall development of the enterprise. Through verification, this model has high accuracy and reliability, can support the operation of actual enterprises, and plays an important role in the development of enterprises. Finally, based on the content of the article research, we put forward the following suggestions for the transformation and development of digital enterprises (1) conduct market analysis through big data and fuzzy control technology, and clarify market positioning (2) promote traditional publishing and digital publishing through big data and fuzzy control technology Integrated Development of Publishing (3) Cultivate Excellent Composite Talents for Digital Publishing Transformation.

Retracted: Information Fusion Algorithm for Big Data in Digital Publishing Industry Chain

Retracted: Information Fusion Algorithm for Big Data in Digital Publishing Industry Chain

Data-Matching-Based Privacy-Preserving Statistics and Its Applications in Digital Publishing Industry

Data-Matching-Based Privacy-Preserving Statistics and Its Applications in Digital Publishing Industry

Research and Implementation of Automatic Indexing Method of PDF for Digital Publishing

With the rapid development of mobile Internet technology and artificial intelligence technology, the digital publishing industry is in urgent need of using intelligent technology to change the current way of content production and service. Most of the e-book resources owned by publishing enterprises are in PDF format, which is not suitable for reading on mobile devices, and it is not convenient to directly extract key information and construct knowledge graph. With this in mind, this article designs a PDF automatic indexing scheme that can identify all the element information in PDF and output structured data automatically and then extract all the key information in it to generate a keyword library with tag weights. The scheme mainly involves two key technical points: parsing PDF based on text features and grammar rules and extracting keywords based on tag weights. The former visualizes the text block in PDF into a rectangular area, divides the elements by clustering algorithm, and, finally, outputs structured data containing all the information. The latter combines the tags and their weights in the structured data and extracts the keywords in it by the inter-word relation algorithm. The structured data and keywords database produced by this scheme can be used to produce intelligent e-book and build knowledge graph, thus helping publishing enterprises to transform from a content service provider to an intelligent knowledge service provider. This transformation can deeply excavate the core value of the content held by the publishing industry and promote the digitization and intelligentization process of the whole industry.

Research on the Influence of Media Convergence on the Transformation and Upgrading of the Media Industry

With the continuous development of social science and internet technology, media convergence has become an inevitable trend in the development of the media industry, and the current society has entered the era of media convergence. In this environment, media convergence has emerged at a pivotal period. Traditional media and emerging media are integrating with one another, putting forward not only new but also higher requirements for the traditional publishing industry in China. Under the development trend of this kind of media, the digital publishing industry chain is undergoing profound changes, and the publishing industry must actively upgrade its thought ideas, operation mechanism, information dissemination, and many other optimization transformations to ensure that under media convergence, there is stability of the traditional publishing industry, sustainable innovation, as well as development. This paper will make a detailed analysis of the characteristics of media convergence and explore the difficulties and development strategies of media industry upgrading in the era of media convergence.

Information Fusion Algorithm for Big Data in Digital Publishing Industry Chain

This paper studies the information of big data in the digital publishing industry chain and adopts advanced algorithms for its fusion calculation. The basic theory of digital publishing ecological chain is dissected, the construction requirements, construction methods, and construction paths of digital publishing ecological chain are analysed, and feasible construction measures are proposed. It also defines the connotation of the fusion of knowledge services between publishing institutions and libraries in the digital era; then analyses the characteristics and principles of the fusion of knowledge services between publishing institutions and libraries in the digital era; and finally sorts out the theoretical foundations such as synergy theory, information integration service theory, and game theory. Meanwhile, this paper also studies the flow of digital publishing resources and empirically analyses the eco-efficiency of digital publishing eco-chain by using metabolic network analysis, population analysis, and life cycle analysis, and it finds the eco-efficiency problems of the existing e-book eco-chain from its analysis. Finally, the imbalance in the digital publishing ecological chain and its hazards are analysed, and specific regulation and optimization measures are proposed. The research in this paper makes up for the deficiencies of related studies and can well solve the problems that exist in the previous and provide theoretical support for the healthy development of digital publishing enterprises.

Digital Piracy, Creative Productivity, and Customer Care Effort: Evidence from the Digital Publishing Industry

This study empirically examines the effect of copyright piracy reduction on writers’ creative productivity and customer care efforts using data from a digital publishing firm.

From print to digital: First steps in collecting digital music publications in UK legal deposit libraries

As a result of the 2013 Non-Print Legal Deposit Regulations, the United Kingdom’s legal deposit libraries acquired two large collections of digital music publications in PDF format: 43,165 from Music Sales and 13,167 from Faber Music. These constitute their back catalogues for the period 2013 to 2018. This article considers the genres of music that were collected, the relationship between printed and digital output and intended users. The increasing prevalence of digital publication in the United Kingdom’s music publishing industry was evident, with 99% of the content collected from these firms in this period in digital format. The ‘near duplication’ of content through the production of variant editions contributed greatly to the volume of output. Although 71% of content was popular music, other musical genres were also represented. Most of the publications were intended for performance rather than academic study. Despite the tendency to reprint extracts from printed publications digitally, there is currently little potential to switch UK music publishers from print to digital deposit. To truly reflect the nation’s cultural heritage, future collecting will need to embrace the breadth of the United Kingdom’s digital music publishing industry. Legal deposit libraries will need to collect publications with accompanying audiovisual content, those in multiple parts, proprietary music notation file formats and interactive content delivered via apps. This will require workflows that can accommodate publishers producing a handful of publications and those publishing at scale. The sustainability of collecting relies on close cooperation between libraries, composers, publishers, distributors, aggregators and music notation software providers.

Desktop Publishing, Part 3

The articles in this special section focus on the emergence and growth of desktop publishing. This is the third special issue that is devoted to the history of desktop publishing. The first issue appeared in the fall of 2018, and was about the developments in the 1960s and 1970s of computer-driven printing and the technologies that led to the commercial growth of the desktop publishing industry. The second issue, in the fall of 2019, continued the story by describing how those technologies, developed in the 1970s particularly at Xerox PARC, became the foundation for the growth of major desktop-publishing software companies, with articles by founders of Adobe, Aldus, Quark, Frame Technology, and Ventura. The prediction that computers would end the era of print publication goes as far back as Vannevar Bush’s 1945 Memex. The first two Annals special issues on desktop publishing have documented what happened instead, as computing became central to publishing. They were primarily about the technology and the companies that created the digital publishing industry and made it so popular. We continue that documentation in this issue, and also have two articles on the history of font design, which is central to all publishing, both traditional “hot-metal” and digital.

China’s Digital Publishing Moving Towards In-Depth Integrated Development

Against the backdrop of accelerating the “national cyber development strategy”, positive development momentum was seen in the digital publishing industry in China in 2018, generating a total revenue of RMB833.08 billion, exceeding the RMB800 billion mark, with an increase of 17.8% over the previous year. To fulfill the task of media integration for further development, higher requirements have been put forward for digital publishing, which is not in the face of new development opportunities and challenges. In this paper, we analyze the environment and development of the Digital Publishing Industry in 2018, propose countermeasures to further promote the development of digital publishing, and forecast the development trend of digital publishing in the coming year.

Immersive Audio Storytelling: Podcasting and Serial Documentary in the Digital Publishing Industry

Structural shifts behind the rise of podcasting have led to programming aimed at sustaining audience attention, a development coinciding with the sharp increase in engaged time with digital longform content among mobile users. This study industrially and culturally situates 3 case studies: True Murder (a pioneering precursor to This American Life producers’ Serial), S-Town (Serial’s successor that far exceeded its listenership), and Ear Hustle (Radiotopia’s experiment in subject-produced content made by two inmates at San Quentin State Prison). Each case illustrates how distinct sectors of the podcasting industry approach the production of absorbing nonfiction through transparent journalism featuring self-reflexive metanarrative.

The Application of Block Chain Technology in Digital Copyright

With the development of Internet technology, new publishing forms such as electronic reading and mobile publishing have been recognized and accepted by users. Users no longer merely the knowledge content of the readers, but also the content of the producers and publishers, the formats of the publication industry in nature has changed, the digital publishing industry get rapid development, followed by piracy. Block chain technology can effectively solve the infringement problem in digital copyright protection due to its distributed data storage structure, non-tamperability of content and easy to track and trace. Based on the analysis of block chain technology, the basic structure of block chain applied to digital copyright protection is studied, and the advantage of block chain technology in digital copyright protection is summarized.

New Technology Research and Practices in Digital Publishing in China

Enjoying widespread government support and encouragement for the digital projects of publishers and media industry. The Chinese publishing business continues to show steady development in the past year. At the same time, significant changes are taking place in the structure of the publishing industry. The content production, marketing, operating, and consumption are not linear upstream–downstream related any more. Instead, they have fused together, and thus formed a new industrial ecosphere. In this paper, we investigate the new technology research and practice in the digital publishing industry. There is obvious indication that new technology plays an important role in the structural change of the publishing industry.

Applying Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to explore Users’ Behavioral Intention to Adopt a Performance Assessment System for E-book Production

With rapidly rising popularity of digital reading coupled with advancement in electronic book technology, there is a sense of urgency to cultivate qualified talent for the digital publishing industry. Based on results of an exploration identifying technical skills needed for the industry to produce electronic books, this study developed a web-based performance assessment system with 35 questions in its item bank regarding four dimensions of full-text e-book production. The study applied technology acceptance model (TAM) to explore the behavioral intention of students in technological colleges and universities and use a web-based performance assessment system as a tool to evaluate their technical proficiency in e-book production. This study also applied structural equation model as a vehicle to test the hypotheses and relationships in the research to verify external effects of “computer self-efficacy”. This research concludes that the technology acceptance model can be applied to explain users’ willingness to adopt a web-based assessment system.

Design of batch audio/video conversion platform based on JavaEE

With the rapid development of digital publishing industry, the direction of audio / video publishing shows the diversity of coding standards for audio and video files, massive data and other significant features. Faced with massive and diverse data, how to quickly and efficiently convert to a unified code format has brought great difficulties to the digital publishing organization. In view of this demand and present situation in this paper, basing on the development architecture of Sptring+SpringMVC+Mybatis, and combined with the open source FFMPEG format conversion tool, a distributed online audio and video format conversion platform with a B/S structure is proposed. Based on the Java language, the key technologies and strategies designed in the design of platform architecture are analyzed emphatically in this paper, designing and developing a efficient audio and video format conversion system, which is composed of “Front display system”, "core scheduling server " and " conversion server ". The test results show that, compared with the ordinary audio and video conversion scheme, the use of batch audio and video format conversion platform can effectively improve the conversion efficiency of audio and video files, and reduce the complexity of the work. Practice has proved that the key technology discussed in this paper can be applied in the field of large batch file processing, and has certain practical application value.

Present Situation of Construction of the National Digital Publishing Industrial Bases of China and Research on the Measures

In recent years, the digital publishing industry of China has rapidly developed. The construction of the digital publishing base is the important mode of developing the digital publishing industry advocated by the government. By now, 14 national digital publishing bases have been completed in China and the relevant digital publishing industrial cluster has been basically established. Some measures such as building of the collaborative mechanism to promote cooperation, attaching importance to the scientific and technological innovation and strengthening of the interdisciplinary talent training, etc. are presented to deal with some problems in the development of the bases such as low relevance and cooperative level, lack of scientific and technological innovation and lack of the interdisciplinary talents of the digital publishing industry, etc.

Research on the Digital Transformation of China’s Traditional Publishing Industry Based on an International Perspective

The global publishing industry is undergoing the transformation from traditional publishing to digital publishing. The western developed countries as the digital leaders have basically completed the digital transition in publishing industry. Although the digital publishing industry in China has grown rapidly in recent years, the pace of digital transformation in traditional publishing filed is quite slow compared with the developed countries. Therefore, the paper explores the current situation of digital publishing home and abroad, and then proposes some digital solutions for traditional publishing in China based on the international successful experiences.

Analysis of Product Distribution Strategy in Digital Publishing Industry Based on Game-Theory

Abstract The digital publishing output increased significantly year by year. It has been the most vigorous point of economic growth and has been more important to press and publication industry. Its distribution channel has been diversified, which is different from the traditional industry. A deep research has been done in digital publishing industry, for making clear of the constitution of the industry chain and establishing the model of industry chain. The cooperative and competitive relationship between different distribution channels have been analyzed basing on a game-theory. By comparing the distribution quantity and the market size between the static distribution strategy and dynamic distribution strategy, we get the theory evidence about how to choose the distribution strategy to get the optimal benefit.

Who survives a recession? Specialization against diversification in the digital publishing industry

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study the empirical relationship between specialization, diversification and rate of survival in the digital publishing industry. The sample includes all publishing companies in Italy that produce electronic content and distribute it through internet platforms.Design/methodology/approachThe first part of the paper discusses the pros and cons of specialization against diversification, and applies the related economic theories to the digital publishing industry. The empirical work regarding the factors that affect firm survival is reviewed. The second part is empirical and analyzes the diversification strategies of 2,838 Italian digital editors between 1995 and 2014, and the impact of diversification on the probability of survival.FindingsOn the whole, digital publishing companies that are also active in traditional print activities have been constantly declining. However, those who combine print and digital activities or operate other mass media businesses have a higher probability of surviving in the market. These findings hold controlling for firm size and market structure, before and after the economic crisis exploded in 2009, in different geographical areas and by different legal forms of publishing companies.Research limitations/implicationsAs the industry often presents country-specific characteristics, the econometric analysis should also be integrated with case studies that highlight particular survival conditions.Practical implicationsThe study provides mass media scholars as well as practitioners with detailed information on the digital publishing trends in the medium term.Originality/valueThis research is significant because, in the period under review, many digital native entrepreneurs with scarce experience entered the industry, targeted digital native consumers/readers and challenged traditional and established media conglomerates.