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RIDING THE WAVES OF
TECHNOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE
IN THE MEDIA PUBLISHING INDUSTRIES
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Printers Post is supporting the Australian media-publishing industries* and its readers by providing a series of information packages about the impact of technology convergence on the Australian media-publishing industries.

These packages are summarized as follows:

Preface by the authors

General Introduction (Week 1)
• Understanding knowledge work within the customer’s business
• Setting the scene: Introducing the idea of technological convergence
• Overview description of different information packages
• Understanding knowledge work within the customer’s business

In-house or externally sourced support-systems
• Content and document management (Week 2)
• Customised publishing (Week 3)
• Graphic Design (Week 4)
• In-house printing (Week 5)

The customer’s access to outsourced service functions
• Pre-press (Week 6)
• Commercial printing (Week 7)
• Finishing (Week 8)
• Packaging (Week 9)
• Logistics (Week 10)

* Definition of the media publishing industries
In this series of information packages, the term “media and publishing industries” is used to include all the sub-sectors associated with the provision of graphic-communications services including commercial print, in-house print, graphic design, enterprise and other types of publishing, (including education), finishing and binding, print logistics, pre-press, content management, the equipment vendor sector and all related sectors where graphic communication services are embedded within the structure of those sectors.

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