Challenges to the Book Industry in a Globalizing World
Friday, March 1, 2013
Shenzhen, China
International Conference on Challenges to the Book Industry in a Globalizing World
标题：全球化世界中的图书产业所面临的挑战
Today, the world is facing revolutionary changes in all walks of life. In a very short period of time, most of the world’s population resort to internet for their daily business, for their job search, for their research on various persons and information and for reading what is going on in the global community.. However, the actual impact of this technological innovation and revolution on written hard copy materials is yet to be recognized. Does digital media of the future means a threat or an opportunity to world learning and hard copy books? How copyrights the intellectual property rights as dearly kept principles are to be followed in a digital world? How the contemporary book industries will transform in the digital world and what role they will play?
All these questions and challenges emanated by the digital divide of tomorrow dictates that we revisit the boundaries and limitations of the relevant legal provisions of governing our printed materials today and either ascertain their relevance or to modify them to fit the future needs.
The International Conference on “challenges facing book industries in the globalizing world” is all about these topics and the resultant brain storming and recommendations by this conference will draw the future path way for Shenzhen and its book industries to follow.
Agenda (.doc)
