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Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Publishing industry
In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those
who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or
translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher
who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who
prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation,
the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof
reader who corrected them. The author's hand cannot be separated
from the printers' mind. This book is devoted to the process of
publication of the works that framed their readers' representations
of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual
criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works
- like Cervantes' "Don Quixote" or Shakespeare's plays - as well as
lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental
discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written
word between the invention of printing and the definition, three
centuries later, of what we call 'literature'.
This fascinating and inspiring biography of John H Haynes - the man
behind Haynes Manuals - looks 'under the bonnet' at his
extraordinary life, and his legacy to the motoring world. This is
the story of how one man's vision and enthusiasm gave a small
enterprise in rural Somerset a global footprint. The story begins
with John's childhood in Ceylon and his school days - when as a
young entrepreneur he sowed the seeds for what would become the
iconic Haynes car-repair manuals - to his time as a young RAF
officer, and then as the driving force behind the growth of the
iconic Haynes brand and the Haynes International Motor Museum. This
biography will appeal not only to motoring enthusiasts, but a wider
audience who will be intrigued by the story of the Haynes family
and the business dynamics - exploring the evolution of a global,
yet truly British company and brand, led and overseen by John
Haynes for 59 years.
Stefanie Trumper entwickelt das Modell der nachhaltigen Erinnerung,
mit dem sich das Verhaltnis von Journalismus und Erinnerung
theoretisch durchleuchten und operationalisieren lasst. Die Autorin
zeigt, dass Erinnerungsfahigkeit eine wesentliche Voraussetzung fur
die Konstruktion von Aktualitat ist und Erinnerung entsprechend ein
Kriterium journalistischer Qualitat. In einer international
vergleichenden Fallstudie wird das Modell erprobt. Im Fokus steht
die gegenwartige Berichterstattung uber zwei Flutkatastrophen in
den Niederlanden (1953) und in Norddeutschland (1962). Der
Journalismus ordnet die Ereignisse auf komplexe Weise mittels
retrospektiver und prospektiver Aktualisierungsstrategien in das
Zeitgeschehen ein. Das Buch leistet einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur
Analyse der Rolle von Journalismus im Hinblick auf
erinnerungskulturelle Fragestellungen.
The field of electronic literature has a familiar catchphrase, "You
can't do it on paper." But the field has in fact never gone
paperless. Reaching back to early experiments with digital writing
in the mainframe era and then moving through the personal computer
and Internet revolutions, this book traces the changing forms of
paper on which e-lit artists have drawn, including continuous
paper, documentation, disk sleeves, packaging, and even artists'
books. Paper Electronic Literature attests that digital
literature's old media elements have much to teach us about the
cultural and physical conditions in which we compute; the
creativity that new media artists have shown in their dealings with
old media; and the distinctively electronic issues that confront
digital artists. Moving between avant-garde works and popular ones,
fiction writing and poetry generation, Richard Hughes Gibson
reveals the diverse ways in which paper has served as a component
within electronic literature, particularly in facilitating
interactive experiences for users. This important study develops a
new critical paradigm for appreciating the multifaceted material
innovation that has long marked digital literature.
'A masterpiece' - Daily Mail 'A fascinating and funny look at what
really goes into the making of a book' Sunday Times 'Inject this
straight into my veins!' Lucy Mangan 'Engaging, informative, and
fascinating!' David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Once upon a time, a writer had an idea. They wrote it down. But
what happened next? Join Rebecca Lee, professional word-improver,
as she embarks on the fascinating journey to find out how a book
gets from author's brain to finished copy. She'll learn the dark
arts of ghostwriters, uncover the hidden beauty of typesetting and
find out which words end up in books (and why). And along the way,
her quest will be punctuated by a litany of little-known
considerations that make a big impact: ellipses, indexes, hyphens,
esoteric grammar and juicy errata slips. Whoops. From foot-and-note
disease to the town of Index, Missouri - turn the page to discover
how books get made and words get good. Or, at least, better.
In Blockchain Democracy, William Magnuson provides a breathtaking
tour of the world of blockchain and bitcoin, from their origins in
the online scribblings of a shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto,
to their furious rise and dramatic crash in the 2010s, to their
ignominious connections to the dark web and online crime. Magnuson
argues that blockchain's popularity stands as a testament both to
the depth of distrust of government today, and also to the fervent
and undying belief that technology and the world of cyberspace can
provide an answer. He demonstrates how blockchain's failings
provide broader lessons about what happens when technology runs up
against the stubborn realities of law, markets, and human nature.
This book should be read by anyone interested in understanding how
technology is changing our democracy, and how democracy is changing
our technology.
Der Band setzt sich mit den unterschiedlichen Erwartungshaltungen
an Autoren und Regisseure historischer Dokumentation auseinander
und entwickelt daraus einen Leitfaden fur die Praxis. Welche
dramaturgischen Grundmuster bieten sich fur historische
Dokumentationen an? Was ist ein angemessener Umgang mit Zeitzeugen
im Spannungsfeld von subjektiver Wahrnehmung und historischer
Wahrheit? Welche wissenschaftlichen Kriterien sind eher hinderlich,
welche historischen Forschungsansatze koennen dagegen hilfreich
sein? Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele erlautert der Autor, wie es
gelingt, den unterschiedlichen Erwartungshaltungen zu entsprechen
und dennoch den eigenen Gestaltungswillen nicht aus den Augen zu
verlieren.
This is a major bibliographic research guide designed to assist
scholars of South Asian history (India, Pakistan, and Nepal) in
finding materials relevant to their research. It offers an
annotated and indexed list of over 5,000 articles from 351
periodicals and 26 books of collected essays and encyclopedias. It
lists 341 English and bilingual English-vernacular newspapers, and
251 vernacular papers published in South Asia, all with pertinent
information. It also provides an extensive unified list of
dissertations for degrees in modern South Asian history from South
Asian, European, and American universities. About 3,100 of the
entries are annotated. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Complete Source Code and Program Listing for TeX Now, 35 years
after the first edition, the leading worldwide experts on these
systems have spent several months inspecting every page thoroughly.
We now believe that every "i" has been properly dotted, every "t"
has been properly crossed, and every bug has been properly
exterminated. Donald E. Knuth, creator of the exciting TeX computer
typesetting system, has made available in this volume the fully
documented program listing for TeX. Readers who are already
familiar with TeX and with its user's guide, The TeXbook, will find
much of interest in the source code. Other readers interested in
software development and in Knuth's programming style will find
this a fascinating and instructive case study. Never before has a
computer program of this size been spelled out so clearly and
completely. Knuth presents all the algorithms and explains every
detail of the TeX program, utilizing the WEB system of structured
documentation that he developed as part of his TeX research
project. TeX: The Program is the second in a five-volume series on
Computers and Typesetting, all authored by Knuth. This series
presents the results of nearly a decade of innovative research on
the problems of preparing publications of high quality.
In this ambitious and multidisciplinary work, Round examines the
relationship between Native Americans and printed books over a
two-hundred-year period, uncovering the individual, communal,
regional, and political contexts for Native peoples' use of the
printed word. From the northeastern woodlands to the Great Plains,
Round argues, alphabetic literacy and printed books mattered
greatly in the emergent, transitional cultural formations of
indigenous nations threatened by European imperialism.
What does it mean to author a piece of music? What transforms the
performance scripts written down by musicians into authored books?
In this fascinating cultural history of Western music's adaptation
to print, Kate van Orden looks at how musical authorship first
developed through the medium of printing. When music printing began
in the sixteenth century, publication did not always involve the
composer: printers used the names of famous composers to market
books that might include little or none of their music. Publishing
sacred music could be career-building for a composer, while some
types of popular song proved too light to support a reputation in
print, no matter how quickly they sold. Van Orden addresses the
complexities that arose for music and musicians in the burgeoning
cultures of print, concluding that authoring books of polyphony
gained only uneven cultural traction across a century in which
composers were still first and foremost performers.
This Element is a contribution to the ongoing debate on what it
meant to publish a book in manuscript. It offers case-studies of
three twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historians: William of
Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth. It
argues that the contemporary success and rapid attainment of
canonical authority for their histories was in significant measure
the result of successfully conducted publishing activities. These
activities are analysed using the concept of a 'publishing circle'.
This concept, it is suggested, may have wider utility in the study
of authorial publishing in a manuscript culture. This Element is
also available as Open Access.
Academic bookselling inhabits a landscape fundamentally impacted by
legislative and political pressure, colonised by new textual forms
and new publishing ventures, experiencing constant change. Capital
Letters defines the academic bookshop, text, and market, examining
change drivers in the UK, the USA and Asia. Drawing on current
research, inclusive of commercial publishers and publishing
interest groups, Capital Letters also includes quantitative and
qualitative research data from academic booksellers. In evaluating
the response of academic bookshops to the changing landscape,
Capital Letters argues that academic booksellers can understand,
shape, and lead a sustainable and equitable future for academic
text within the marketplace.
Penguin Classics have built their reputation as one of the largest
and most successful modern imprints for 'classic' texts on the
notion of 'the general reader'. Following an interrogation of this
idea, Leah Tether investigates the publication of medieval French
literature on this list and shines a light on the drivers,
motivations, negotiations and decision-making processes behind it.
Focusing on the medieval French texts published between c.1956 and
2000, Tether demonstrates that, rather than Penguin's frequently
cited 'general reader', a more academic market may have contributed
to ensuring the success of these titles.
The Digital Humanities is a comprehensive introduction and
practical guide to how humanists use the digital to conduct
research, organize materials, analyze, and publish findings. It
summarizes the turn toward the digital that is reinventing every
aspect of the humanities among scholars, libraries, publishers,
administrators, and the public. Beginning with some definitions and
a brief historical survey of the humanities, the book examines how
humanists work, what they study, and how humanists and their
research have been impacted by the digital and how, in turn, they
shape it. It surveys digital humanities tools and their functions,
the digital humanists' environments, and the outcomes and reception
of their work. The book pays particular attention to both
theoretical underpinnings and practical considerations for
embarking on digital humanities projects. It places the digital
humanities firmly within the historical traditions of the
humanities and in the contexts of current academic and scholarly
life.
Es ist ein guter Brauch im Verlagsbuchhandel, aus Anlaf3 -
deutenderer Jubilfien vonder Entwicklung des Unternehmens Bericht
zu geben. DaB dies beim Springer-Verlag erst gelege- lich des 150.
Jahrestags der Verlagsgrtindung geschieht, ist fiberwiegend
zufallsbedingt. Die kleineren Verlagsjubilfien wurden als
Fami/ienfeiern - gangen, denn Julius Springer hatte den Verlag an
seinem 25. Geburtstag gegrfindet. Das 25j-ihrige Bestehen (1867)
wurde in kleinem Kreise gefeiert; Marie Springer berichtet, sic
habe - ren Mann zu seinem 50. Geburtstag einer kleinen gela- nen
Gesellschaft seiner n ichsten buchhfindlerischen Freunde sowie des
engeren Familienkreises tiberrascht, mit denen ein heiteres, von
sch6nen Toasten gewtirztes Mittagsmahl ein- nommen wurde IMS: 79f.
Auch der 50. Jahrestag hatte noch einen mehr famili iren Charakter:
Es wurde des so frtih verst- benen Verlagsgriinders gedacht, und
der filteste Sohn wiJrdigte den Vater in einer kleinen Ansprache
(s. S. 80). Das Jubilfium wurde zum Anlag genommen, eine
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