NCL Seminar on New Book Services

Digital publishing and reading habits in the ROC were highlighted at the “Seminar on ROC New Book Information Services in the 21st Century,” held by the NCL in cooperation with the Publishers’ Association of the ROC and the Taipei Publishers Association. The keynote speakers during the first session, entitled “Reading Habits and the Information Needs of Readers,” were Prof. Hsin-yuan Chen (陳信元), director of the Editing and Publishing Center at Nanhua University, and Prof. Mei-mei Wu (吳美美), of the Social Education Department at National Taiwan Normal University. Prof. Chen said that the network age is changing the way that the traditional publishing industry is structured and conducts business. In the future, he predicted, editors will need to prepare publications in various formats according to their content. Moreover, he said, they will need to understand the concepts of interactive editing and how to interact with readers.