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Print &
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overview
This guide explores content creation and distribution,
in particular electronic publishing. It identifies publishing
genres, discusses significant issues and points to resources
of particular value for making sense of the 'content industries'
in the digital environment.
contents of this guide
The following pages cover -
- past
& future - an introduction to publishing, past,
present and future
- economics
- research into pricing online publications, rights
trading, print-on-demand and experiments by the likes
of Fatbrain and I-Universe
- studies
- major conference proceedings, academic studies, industry
reports and bibliographies regarding internet publishing
- delivery
- physical format (CD-ROM, Digicards and other physical
media) versus online delivery
- formats
- industry standards, the debate about PDF versus SGML
(HTML, XML), and preservation guidelines
- monographs - developments
in scholarly and special-purpose book publishing, and
digital thesis projects
- dissertations - developments
in digital thesis projects
- fiction
- mass market book publishing
- e-journals
- academic and special-purpose serials
- newspapers
- taking newspapers online
- directories
& data services - developments with online information
services, from corporate data to white pages and restaurant
guides
- film
and video - film and the broadcasting industry
- music
- the music business
- webcasts
- webcasting as a technology, business, regulatory challenge
and channel
- interactive
- the games industry, online and offline
- editing
- standards, guidelines and benchmarks for
editing electronic publications, including EAD, TEI
and MEP
- business
- electronic publishing within and for the corporate
sector
- education
- courseware and other electronic publishing within
the education sector
- government
- developments in government publishing
- culture
- taking museums, theatres and other cultural institutions
online
- e-texts
- comments on 'electronic books'
- devices
- recent developments in publishing books on portable
devices ranging from the PalmPilot to the SoftBook
- libraries-
information about global access to digital resources
(the web is in one sense an electronic library) and
about how institutions are responding to publishing
challenges
- digitisation
and archiving - an overview of digitisation projects
and projects to archive the net
- on
demand - developments with print-on-demand (POD)
technology, likely to have a greater impact over the
next five years than e-books
- rights
trade - rights management, syndication and other
questions
- UGC
- user generated content - blogs, zines,
fora, home pages
- DIY
- self-publishing in print and online
- CMS
- off the shelf and custom-built content
management systems
- landmarks
- inflection points in the history of publishing
orientation
Definitions of 'publishing' vary and may be contentious,
with for example -
- disputes
in the digital environment about the interpretation
of enactments covering transmission and availability
- value
systems that privilege particular industries , with
for example a strong demarcation between print, broadcast
and music recording although all are concerned with
conveying information to audiences and all potentially
involve questions about the rights and responsibilities
of content creators, intermediaries and consumers
- assertions
of hierarchies within industries, typically with claims
that sectors addressing elite markets, avoiding ephemeral
content or using comparatively permanent media (bound
acid-free paper versus tabloid newsprint) are engaged
in publishing rather than what is dismissed as 'entertainment'
This
guide, along with other pages of the Caslon.com.au site,
avoids the characterisation of publishing as an avocation
for gentlemen or something that centres on reproduction
of timeless works of prose. Instead we have broadly treated
'publishing' as both
- making
information publicly available (whether online or in
physical formats), irrespective of the size of the audience
- an
enterprise that encompasses the 'content industries'
- book, journals, maps, prints, musical scores and recordings,
film, video ...
The following pages focus on text genres, exploring the
interaction between authors, intermediaries (govt, booksellers,
distributors, libraries) and end users. However, they
feature discussion of video, film, audio and interactive
genres such as computer games.
related guides and briefings
This site includes a number of guides of particular
relevance to electronic publishing, notably those dealing
with Intellectual Property and
the separate guides on design
and accessibility.
This site also includes a detailed profile on the history
of the book and reading.
The Ketupa.net site
provides information about major media groups.
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