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Technical Foundations for Business Success

THE COMING

DIGITAL

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PUBLISHING

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Disruptive Technology 1439

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• Product/Effect

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The Ghost of Technology Past

Q: Where have we heard these comments?• “The print is too small to read.”• “I like having the feel of a book to hold when I read it.”• “It won’t be easy to read at the beach.”• “Its not a REAL book.”• “It won’t last.”• “The format is too tiny to hold comfortably.”• “Who would want to read ‘War and Peace’ on it.”• “Serious authors will never embrace it.”

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Ghosts of Technology Past

A: The Paperback Book when it was first released.

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Ghosts of Technology Past

Reference: “A History of Paperback Books”

http://paperbarn.www1.50megs.com/Paperbacks/index.htm

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• New Disruptive Technology

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• New Product/Effect

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• THE PROJECT GUTENBERG BIBLE, King James, Book 10: 2 Samuel • 10:001:001 Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was

returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

• 10:001:002 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a mancame out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.

• 10:001:003 And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

• 10:001:004 And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee,tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

• 10:001:005 And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest

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Regular vs. Mobile Internet

Proprietary vs. Generic Solutions• Proprietary: Sony e-Book, Kindle Reader,

Rocket Book– Idea is that you will get a more book like reading

experience

• Generic: Works on any device that is web enabled– Idea is that you will be able to access print content on

any kind of web enabled device.

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• New Formats– VST– dNaml– Adobe Reader– Microsoft Reader– Palm Reader– Kindle– Sony e-Reader

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PDFOr

XML

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•How do you get there from here?

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•XML Workflows.

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The Coming Era of Mobile Content

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Images of Mobile Past

• Vision

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Images of Mobile Present

• Product

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Images of Mobile Future

• Future

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Ghosts of Technology Past

•The Original Small Screen

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The Mobile Internet vs. Regular Internet

•WAP!!!

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Sample of Comic Book we created for distribution via cell phone

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•WHERE’S THE MONEY???

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Current Work on Mobile at ICC Macmillan

•SO IS THERE A MARKET?

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The Cell Phone Space

3.3 BILLION > 5 BILLION vs. 800 Million > 1 BILLION

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Distribution Solution

RULE 1: DON’T FOCUS ON THE US ONLY.

MARKETS ARE EVERYWHERE.

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•Question: What is the World’s Largest English Reading Market (No its not the US).

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•Question: What is the World’s 2nd Largest English Reading Market (No its not the US).

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The Future of Mobile

•Mobile IS the Internet in many developing countries.NY Times Article 4/13/08 “Can the

Cellphone End Global Poverty”

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Making Mobile Work

•5 out of current top 10 Fiction bestsellers in Japan started on Mobile.

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Distribution Solution

RULE 2: AVOID EXCLUSIVITY

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Making Mobile Work

•Are you On Deck or Off Deck?

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Making Mobile Work

Aggregate your distributors as well as your content.

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Making Mobile Work

OPPORTUNITY 2:

Go Global with Mobile

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MPS Mobile: Our Unique Selling Proposition

• 75+ Mobile Phone Companies

• 150+ Countries

• Equals a potential market of 2.5 Billion people.

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MPS Mobile: Our Unique Selling Proposition

• We Consolidate Billing

• Provide Comprehensive Reporting

• Can Work in All Media (Print, Music, Video)

• Can Work in Multiple Languages

• Support Color (Kindle and e-Reader do not)

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MPS Mobile: Our Unique Selling Proposition

•MAKE THE GLOBAL LOCAL

•MAKE THE LOCAL GLOBAL

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The Cell Phone Space

3 Key Facts About Mobile

• Normal use: 7–10 minute involvement period forcing publishers into new ways of thinking about content

• Cell phone content is nearly impossible to pirate, copy or share.

• Mobile also opens up new opportunities for content facilitation.

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Making Mobile Work

•Slice, dice, disaggregate, reaggregate

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Some Quick Statistics

•RULE 3: TARGET EVERYONE

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Some Quick Statistics

• 82% of all US/Western European consumers now have access to the Mobile Internet on their Mobile devices.

• 32% use the Mobile Internet• 18% more expect to use it more this year• 41% of those without the Internet on their Mobile

device expect to have it on their next device• 10% have made purchases based on web Ads• 13% who saw a web ad asked for more

information on a product.

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Some Quick Statistics

• 20% of Mobile users have paid for content on their phones

• Highest Category is Tech News (24%) followed by Travel/Lifestyle (21%) and Reference (20%)

• Smart Phone purchases grew by 192% worldwide last year.

• While the iPhone was a substantial component of the, the Blackberry 8830 and Nokia e90 series also saw substantial growth.

• Nokia, Blackberry and Apple are 1,2,3 in Smart Phones

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Making Mobile Work

OPPORTUNITY 4:

•Develop Your FMO

(For Mobile Only) Content

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Making Mobile Work

•RULE 4: EXPECT CHANGE

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The Mobile Future

•The iPhone has dramatically increased consumer awareness of mobile capabilities.

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The Mobile Future

•Consumers have shown their clear preference for “do-it-all” devices rather than stand alones.

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Making Mobile Work

• Other devices will also be launching this Fall:

–Bigger Screen size

–Larger Keyboards (and Laser Keyboards)

–Screen Projectors

–Thinner, sexier, cheaper versions of iPhones.

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The Mobile Future

• Opening up the Airwaves

–700 MHZ Spectrum

–Recent Verizon Decision

–Google’s Android Software.

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The Future of Content

• When asked at a recent conference where he saw Google’s biggest future growth prospects, Sergey Brin co-founder answered:

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The Future of Content

• “Mobile, Mobile, Mobile.”

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The Mobile Future

•Rule 5: Think outside the book um, box.

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The Mobile Future

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The Mobile Future

NEW MEANS OF MONETIZING

YOUR CONTENT

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The Mobile Future

•Pay per view•Subscriptions•RSS/SMS Feeds•Bundled Media•Time Critical SMS

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MPS Mobile: Key Opportunities

• Legacy Content Delivery

• Disaggregated Content (Tracks, Articles, Chapters, Segments)

• Sermon Delivery

• Sunday School Curricula

• Multimedia

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Turn Your Cell Phones ON

• To check out MPS Mobile on your cell phone now do the following:– IN BROWSER: go to

globalreader.wap.com or wap.global-reader.com

– Text 22646 with GlobalReader as the message and a link will be sent to your phone.• Outside USA text to +447786203222

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•To get your Global Bible text MacMobile to 22646

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