ABSTRACT
Digital technologies are in widespread use in the book publishing industry. Frequently criticized for its reluctance to adopt new ideas and technologies, book publishing has successfully negotiated through centuries of technological change, from the age of movable type to Web 2.0. The impact of the digitization of content, including the ability to reproduce and distribute perfect copies of content assets, is said to have been almost as profound as has been the introduction of the internet. The provision of computing software as an application hosted by vendors on a remote server and accessible by clients over the internet gained traction in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS). The internet is a data communications system, a combined hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity within a global system of computer networks that uses the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP).
