In the e-Knowledge Age, new market mechanisms will emerge, including free sources of content, context, and insight. Marketplaces will enable individual professionals, practitioners, faculty, and others to create and supply e-knowledge resources to augment the traditional supply channels.

New Roles, Responsibilities and Players. The e-Knowledge Industry will provide new roles and responsibilities for existing players and encourage new players to come to the table. e-Knowledge suppliers and aggregators will be able to provide their content and encoded contexts to a wider range of audiences than offered through traditional vertical channels. Value-added e-knowledge partners will enrich content and context, providing a variety of useful services. e-Knowledge demand aggregators will be able to leverage their market power through aggre-gating demand among their clientele.

e-Knowledge users will include individuals and organizations. Their influence will be dramatically enhanced in the e-knowledge marketplace economy.

A Changing Enterprise Landscape. Which organizations and enterprises will fill these roles over the next ten years? Existing learning, publishing, and knowledge management organizations? New subsidiaries of existing enterprises? Totally new enterprises? New kinds of communities of practice that cross traditional organizational boundaries? Cooperatives of free agents or amorphous peer-to-peer networks? New strategic alliances and collaborations? Only time will tell, and the outcomes may be surprising. The enterprise landscape of the e-Knowledge Industry in ten years time will likely be very different from the clusters of organizations and individuals that aspire to be major players in e-knowledge today.