Abstract

The study of the relationships between digital technologies and publishing enterprise doesn't necessarily imply only the problem of replacing books with new technologic products, but also the thought over the deep changes in the way of considering the role of the publisher induced by these technologies. The most typical element of this course is the decreased centrality of the material support that embodies the informations (book, newspaper, Cd rom, tape...) in favour of the immaterial manifacturing elements and of the means - often new - of creating value for the final user. We can name this phenomenon as «dematerialization of editorial intermediation».