This book is for professionals who are tasked with creating valuable, sustainable services around information. It explains key principles of the field of infonomics, which describes the underlying value of information and related aspects such as how information is produced and priced, the market demand for it, how user behaviors affect it, and how information is changing as an economic good and service. After a history of infonomics and the information industry, Section 2 examines new distribution channels and their effects, looking at open source and open access, digital libraries, and social networking.Section 3 concentrates on the rise of apps and the new information order, with chapters on e-learning, the wireless revolution, and privacy. Regazzi is chairman of the advisory board of the US Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service.
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