Online Information Meeting 2001. Italian Forum, Londra, 5 dicembre 2001: L'editoria elettronica: nuove leggi e vecchia economia Italian paper presented at the Italian Session of Online Information Meeting 2001 - London, 5 december 2001

摘要

The Italian publishing industry innovation strategy is having a hard time in embracing international competition. The recent legislative provisions aimed at modernizing thissector have not had very promising outcomes. The sector shows a quite unbalanced picture featuring the presence of large internationally based companies, and small 'niche'companies. Given the weak structure of the market, the ongoing initiatives are often carried out on a experimental basis, aimed at testing market's resistance, users' reactions, expectations, and at tracing the prospective customer identity. There are no indications of solid market perspectives so far. In this context librarians and documentalists again play a renewed intermediary role between producers who are discovering new roles and end-users who are facing new reading tools and styles.