Changing the Publishing Model

The publishing industry is experiencing major social changes. Time magazine and The Los Angeles Times, to name just two publications, have highlighted these changes as characterized by a public that has developed both a preference for receiving information online and an expectation that this content be available for free. For information creators and providers such as the IEEE Computer Society (CS), how or why these shifts have occurred or whether they´re good or bad phenomena are debates that have become irrelevant to their consequences. Newspapers as we´ve known them for centuries appear to be on the verge of disappearing or perhaps transforming into something very different.