In the last one year and a half we noticed a further acceleration of the concentration process in information industry; if it's easy to conclude that it's the effect - in a vertical market - of a general trend in all the industrial sectors, it's also possible to find a particular specificity thinking about the high degree of fragmentation that characterizes the publishing industry (then the information one) making it very weak in front of the globalization challenges, but above all particularly sensitive to the epoch-making change of setting derived from the new technologies. Industrial concentration, revolution of the system of scholarly publishing, regeneration of the tools to access information: they are only three sides - among many others - that characterize a very wide transformation, destined to impair all these roles - without exception - that we use to take for granted in the chain of information production and distribution.