KR20010035049A - Business system and method to provide the electronic book service using the file download and printing on demand system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and a method for providing an electronic book using a file download and a print system on demand are provided to enable a user who wants to read a printed book to use the printed book, and a user who wants to use an electronic book to legally receive a library admission ticket by simultaneously publishing and offering a book and an electronic book. CONSTITUTION: A company catalog server provides information on an electronic book which a user wants to read or purchase. A customer's demand control server provides an interface which enables a user to store data on the electronic book acquired or receive a purchasing order. A manufacture control server reflects an editing on a design, contents which a user wants, and actually publishes an output. In addition, the manufacture control server controls to transmit the output. A

Description

Business system and method to provide the electronic book service using the file download and printing on demand system}

The present invention relates to a method for providing an electronic book, and a conventional book purchase method can visit a bookstore and purchase a book, or purchase a book from an internet bookstore and receive it through a courier, thereby preventing the contents of the book from being viewed. In addition, there were many constraints on purchasing books due to the delivery time and delivery cost. In addition, the purchase of e-books on the Internet is a general method of downloading a file and viewing it on a computer monitor or printing it using a printer after an individual pays a fair price. However, this existing method of providing electronic books is a system that only one individual can use with right. Therefore, those wishing to purchase a group book, such as a library, which provides services for the unspecified number of people to use the book freely, could not serve the e-book. Also, no matter how the e-book was provided, the printer printing service could not be provided for the unspecified number of the e-books. Therefore, group book users had no choice but to buy the book, electronic book, or distribute illegal copies through general copying or electronic copying equipment at their own expense. In addition, such a copy has a limitation that the contents of a book cannot be seen as it is, and the cost is also a great burden.

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is that the process made through the physical means of books caused high cost of book production and distribution, and the method as an Internet e-book file had a limitation of reading. In addition, the reading through the output of the e-book could only be used legally for an individual user, in order to solve the existing problems that inevitably cause illegal distribution when providing a reading service in a large number of libraries and libraries, etc. By publishing and providing printed publications and electronic books (electronic publications) in parallel, users who want to preserve the actual publications and view them in the form of papers in libraries, etc. can use them as paper books, and to all users who want to use them as electronic books. E-books can be legally granted for download, print and viewing on the monitor.

Through these systems and methods, it is possible to solve the copyright problem in the digital era by providing solutions to copyright infringement of copyright holders and illegal copying behavior of users. In addition, the user who wants a book in the form of a printed or paper book provides the same paper book as the original at a lower price than the market price and copying cost of the publication, and the copyright holder grants a right to use, thereby preventing illegal copying and protecting the user's economy. It can ease the burden. Through this system, libraries can diversify and activate the use of e-books by providing a library service in line with the online era, which provides e-books, a new publishing trend in the digital age, to all users free of charge. In addition, personal book users can browse books at a lower economic cost more conveniently by using a library, etc., beyond the purchase of books and the use of electronic books at the individual level.

1 is an overall configuration example of an electronic book providing service system according to the present invention

2 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of an e-book providing service system according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a view showing the reading rights and accessories sold to organizations, such as libraries according to the invention

Figure 4 is an exemplary interface provided for viewing of the customer in accordance with the present invention

Figure 5 is an embodiment processing flow diagram showing the collection of manuscripts that are the contents of an electronic book in accordance with the present invention.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, is accessed after the user authentication process by accessing the company list server through the Internet or a list server of the group, as shown in FIG. Or a company list server that provides basic information about the e-books you wish to purchase, or stores information on e-books that you can view, legally acquired by you, or purchase orders Customer order management server that provides the interface that allows the user to store, download the file, optical media, print, paper book, etc. in the form of the user's desired design or content by reflecting the editing and publishing the actual Manage the delivery of printouts, trade on the Internet or in reality Providing an electronic book comprising a production production management server for managing the publication of the work, such as the manuscript that is the content of the electronic book obtained through the publication, and an authoring management server for managing all problems arising from the acquisition of the work Is in service.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying Figure 2 will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, the company list server A provides an interface capable of accepting a user's request in real time. This interface is provided by the operation of the customer order management server (B).

If the user is an individual, the company list server can be accessed through the Internet. In this case, through the membership registration process, the user can be given proper access by granting an ID and password, and obtain information such as the author, publisher, price, brief information, and table of contents for the book to be viewed or purchased. Based on the basic information on these e-books, the user can monitor the files on the spot by subtracting the service provision cost from the subscription fee collected in advance, or paying the fee via post payment or card. You can browse or use a file download service. It can be said to be a legal use when a user of a legitimate individual who prints such a view or a downloaded file and pays for it is used only for himself. In addition, if you want a book published directly, it provides a service to purchase by providing an interface in the form of an Internet bookstore. In addition, the price is cheaper than the direct purchase of such publications, and the print quality of the original publication books can be ordered with the output of an on-demand printing system. It also provides an interface for individual users to edit the downloads of electronic books or printouts of on-demand printing systems, if desired.

In the case of a user belonging to a group, for example, a user connected through a library, the user can obtain detailed information on the e-books retrieved from the library, and can use the browsing service based on the authority granted to the library. . In addition, when selling the e-book reading authority to the library (Fig. 3), by providing a separate publication in the form of a paper book, you can allow the library to preserve the book, and the user can rent the book if you want to read it . If there is a user who wants to own such e-books directly, the company list server can be accessed through the group list server, so the user can be obtained only by the ID and password issued by the group. have.

In FIG. 2, the customer order management server B provides a workspace of a user's own desk form (FIG. 4) when the user connects to provide the interface of the company list server described above. Here, you can allocate your own space to the server based on the remaining membership fee or membership points based on your personal information, save your own e-books or media materials, and re-access them if necessary. And, if you want to read these existing materials in the form of a paper book can be printed directly or by ordering the customer management server using the membership fee or membership points to obtain the output of the printing system on demand. It also provides a workspace for users to search and get basic information about the books they want. Based on the information of the e-books obtained through these services, you can apply for reading in real time, or place a purchase order if you want to own. In this case, the customer order management server provides a service so that individual users can decorate their own space, edit the contents of an electronic book, or edit any form of printing or purchasing only a part of the book rather than the entire print or purchase. . In the case of a group user, the user may be provided with his own space using a program sold to the group and the group's list server. Otherwise, the user can directly access the company's list server to access the desk space service on the customer order server. I can receive it.

In Figure 2 production production management server (C) provides two services largely. First, it provides users with the ability to access or purchase e-books, access the database, provide the contents in the form of screens or files, and provide users with free editing services for output. And it provides a database service for the documents obtained from the authoring server.

In FIG. 2, the authoring management server manages information on a contract for the contents of an electronic book obtained from the Internet or the real world, and supports a database operation (FIG. 5). The information on this series of publications is updated in real time and provided to the manuscript provider, that is, copyright holders and readers.

As described above, according to the electronic book providing service system and method according to the present invention,

1. Individual users can view and own the books in their own way.

2. Organizations, such as libraries, may provide the unspecified number of legal paper reading and all forms of e-book reading services.

3. Libraries, such as the new library function in response to the online era in that the library provides free ownership of books by downloading and duplicating e-books legally to unspecified majority in the loan function such as lending and reading of books. Will be able to.

4. By using an on-demand printing system, the user can be provided with the same paper book as the original book, which costs less than the cost of purchasing and copying a book.

Claims (5)

In the electronic book providing service based on the world wide web (www) on the Internet, A company list server (A) that authenticates the legitimate access of individual and organizational users and provides a list of books, thereby enabling the user to browse the desired books; A customer order management server (B) supporting a user's desired reading form; A production production management server (C) for producing, producing, and distributing a direct reading form; A copyright management server (D) for resolving legal issues relating to the acquisition, production and copyright of copyright holders and works; Electronic book providing system, characterized in that consisting of. According to claim 1, the user's ID and password is inputted to confirm that the user is a legitimate personal service, and also by authenticating the user of a legitimate organization by revealing the address or path on a specific Internet and to these users their own space Providing a service for storing the existing acquired data and searching for a new reading hope book, and providing a service that meets the requirements for reading and ordering books. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the user decides the book and type of reading and then orders, the user can receive the user's order and provide an interface for editing according to the needs of the individual user. Electronic book providing system characterized by order management to provide information. The method according to claim 1, wherein the production and distribution schedule is planned and executed according to the reading form of the ordered book, and the orderer is notified by e-mail, and the entire production, production, and distribution information is provided to the company. E-book providing system characterized in that. The electronic book of claim 1, wherein the manuscript can be edited, and a contract can be solved to solve a legal problem so that the manuscript can be collected and published through a transaction in the Internet and the real world. Provide system.