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Digital Content Commerce (D-commerce) D- commerce (Digital Content Commerce) is the management of transactions & workflow of digital content on the Internet that is integral to enabling commerce. One of the most common examples of d-commerce is the buying & delivery of goods such as books, music & movies on the Internet. The right holders in publishing, entertainment (music & movies) & financial sector are the hot markets for d-commerce. The key difference between e-commerce & d-commerce is that in e-commerce, only the commerce is done over the net everything else remaining the same. In case of d-commerce, the entire process is digital. The book is produced using digital workflow, distributed in electronic form & consumed on a variety of devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, desktop computers etc. In case of buying/selling of books on the internet, all copyrights, contracts, permission are stored on the server. Instead of traditional manufacturing process, books are stored digitally. The consumer can select the book & instead of waiting for the book to be delivered physically, he/she can download the book on his/her machine & read it. The consumer need not buy the book. The consumer has the option of buying only that part of the book, which they desire. D-commerce can be very effective for the publishing sector (magazines, research papers, newsletters, journals), entertainment areas (music/movies). Presently there are many companies providing piecemeal solution in d-commerce areas namely content production, right enforcement, print on demand, workflow management etc. Types of D-commerceDifferent types of d-commerce include content management services, right management services, transaction management services etc. Potential in terms of Revenue Generation Buying & selling of digital goods such as movies, music & published content. Forrester researchers estimates that the transactions in copyrighted material would constitute USD 10 billion market by 2003. D-commerce provides an opportunity for creating a hub to facilitate intellectual property licensing. Jupiter researchers estimate that the market for licensing of intellectual property will be USD 10 billion by 2003. Business activities such as merger & acquisitions, buying & selling of mutual funds, mortgages, insurance, operations essential to providing health care services involving transaction of digital content via internet is being explored to deliver cost effective & valued information. The publishing, entertainment & financial markets are together expected to spend around USD 30 billion by 2003 towards digital commerce product & services. Players in the field of D-commerce There are many companies developing different d-commerce products which include Ariba (b-2-b commerce platform), Artesia Technologies (in the area of document management & digital asset management), DSG Solutions (in the area of document management & digital asset management), Media DNA (for digital rights management), Adobe (content protection).Online bookseller barnesandnoble.com is teaming with Microsoft to open a Net store selling digital books. Saventech.com (claimed to be the only player in d-commerce in India) plans to adopt a three-pronged strategy, which include software consultancy on d-commerce technologies & market. Two to set up an open standards complaint digital commerce framework, which will form the basis for integration different d-commerce services, systems & workflow processes. The game plan is to promote this framework as the de facto standard. Finally saventech.com plans to bring out Saventech online (SON) (scheduled to be launched by last quarter of the year), a B2B product, which will enable right holders, like publishers to seamlessly integrate with their partners. |
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