The Future of Publishing: New models for Content Creation

With more people making stuff than ever before, how do we free up things being produced and get them quickly into the different publishing forms we have today such as Kindle, e-readers, and others?

Matt Bernius, Co-Director, and the team of researchers at the Open Publishing Lab (OPL), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY address sea changes in the publishing industry with timely questions and innovative solutions.

In this video, Matt describes four successful models designed, developed, tested, and launched by OPL to address industry change catalyzed by deep, pervasive global economic and social shifts.

Innovation News is built on a Druple platform to report news and events from the field or to be used for community news papers. Stories can be submitted from any wireless device, collected, and aggregated via emailed stories, hashtags, wiki pages, etc. with GPS location visualization.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/innovation-news

Open Publishing Guide (OPG) is to be an aid to people interested in self publishing. OPG is a repository of self publishing information such as:  book templates to advice about self-publishing processes, an online coaching process of how to publish, an archive of print on demand services, and  publishing resources available in the public domain.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/open-publishing-guide


Page2Pub aggregates content from the Internet into a portable, print-ready format. Page2Pub is an open source software project that OPL hopes will provide others with a platform for research into this area.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/projects/page2pub/about


Social Networking Game meetu facilitates network building, accelerates idea to project collaborations, and talent and skills sourcing. Meetu leverages print and publishing in an actual event to  carry those social interactions online to various social networking sites.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/meetu

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