Contemporary developments in the book publishing industry are changing the system as we know it. Changes in established understandings of authorship and readership are leading to new business models in line with the postulates of Web 2.0. Socially networked authorship, book production and reading are among the social and discursive practices starting to define this emerging system. Websites offering socially networked, collaborative and shared reading are increasingly important. Social Reading maps socially networked reading within the larger framework of a changing conception of books and reading. This book is structured into chapters covering topics in: social reading and a new conception of the book; an evaluation of social reading platforms; an analysis of social reading applications; the personalization of system contents; reading in the Cloud and the development of new business models; and Open Access e-books.
Discusses social reading as an emerging tendency involving authors, readers, librarians, publishers, and other industry professionalsDescribes how the way we read is changingPresents ways in which the major players in the digital content industry are developing specific applications to foster socially networked reading

This book covers recent developments in the interdisciplinary fields of actuarial science, quantitative finance, risk- and asset management. The authors are leading experts from academia and practice who participated in Innovations in Insurance, Risk- and Asset Management, an international conference held at the Technical University of Munich in 2017.The topics covered include the mathematics of extreme risks, systemic risk, model uncertainty, interest rate and hybrid models, alternative investments, dynamic investment strategies, quantitative risk management, asset liability management, liability driven investments, and behavioral finance.This timely selection of topics is highly relevant for the financial industry and addresses current issues both from an academic as well as from a practitioner's point of view.

Esta monografia ofrece una vision plural y contrastada sobre distintos aspectos relacionados con la creacion de neologismos en distintas lenguas romanicas (es, fr, ca, gl, it, pt, ro). Un abanico de propuestas y enfoques formulados por los principales expertos en neologia del panorama internacional actual, que permite trazar las lineas de actuacion e investigacion mas relevantes de este ambito, y que ayuda al lector a comprender las dinamicas de creacion de lexico en unas lenguas que, ademas de un mismo origen, comparten desafios y oportunidades de cara al futuro. Sin duda, los recursos, estrategias y nuevas orientaciones que se presentan en esta obra arrojan no pocas claves importantes para el estudio y la potenciacion de las lenguas romanicas en el actual panorama linguistico global.