Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, and a host of other commercial and scholarly materials, Striphas tells a story of modern publishing that proves, even in a rapidly digitizing world, books are anything but dead.

From the rise of retail superstores to Oprah's phenomenal reach, Striphas tracks the methods through which the book industry has adapted (or has failed to adapt) to rapid changes in twentieth-century print culture. Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Amazon.com have established new routes of traffic in and around books, and pop sensations like "Harry Potter" and the Oprah Book Club have inspired the kind of brand loyalty that could only make advertisers swoon. At the same time, advances in digital technology have presented the book industry with extraordinary threats and unique opportunities.

Striphas's provocative analysis offers a counternarrative to those who either triumphantly declare the end of printed books or deeply mourn their passing. With wit and brilliant insight, he isolates the invisible processes through which books have come to mediate our social interactions and influence our habits of consumption, integrating themselves into our routines and intellects like never before.

International award-winning writer, Ian Hooper is a passionate advocate for Indie Authors and their ability to self-publish professionally. This 3rd edition of his beginner's guide navigates you through the use of eBook and print, 'Print on Demand' suppliers so that you can successfully self-publish your first book with ease. Also included is a guide to producing your own Audio Books. Given his thirty plus years' experience as a professional instructor and lecturer, Ian details the steps you need to take in an unhurried, plainly written and often humorous way. Explaining how to use the Kindle Direct Publishing, Draft2Digital, IngramSpark and Findaway Voices interfaces, how to expertly use Microsoft (R) Word (R) to format your manuscript and with additional information on ISBNs, Legal Deposit and other fundamentals of self-publishing, this is a must-read for any Indie Authors wishing to turn their book dream into a book reality.

Die Qualifizierung und Rekrutierung fur Medienberufe enthalt im Prozess sozialen Wandels zu einer "Informationsgesellschaft" besondere Bedeutung. Was mussen Journalisten wissen und konnen, um den gestiegenen Anspruchen an ihre Kompetenz gerecht zu werden? Wie konnen sich Berufsaspiranten am besten auf den Journalismus vorbereiten? Welche Vorzuge und Nachteile haben die Ausbildungswege in die Medien? Diese Fragen werden in den 15 Originalbeitragen des Readers beantwortet. Sie enthalten nicht nur Informationen, sondern erstmals auch (empirische) Evaluationen zu allen Formen der Journalistenausbildung in der Bundesrepublik. Themen sind u.a. die in Stellenanzeigen nachgefragten Qualifikationen, die Weiterbildungsangebote fur Journalisten, die Didatik der Journalistenausbildung, die Qualitat der Lehrbucher zum Journalismus und die Berufschancen von Publizistik-Studenten."(...) Dem vorliegenden Reader ist das Erreichen seiner Zielsetzung voll zu bescheinigen. Er leistet - und das unterscheidet ihn durchaus von anderen einschlagigen Publikationen - eine weitreichende Problematisierung sowie vor allem empirisch gestutzte Evaluation der Qualifizierung fur die Medien und arbeitet damit einen bedeutenden Defizitbereich der Forschung auf. Trotz der Vielfalt der behandelten Einzelthemen bleibt der Problemzugriff insgesamt doch koharent, was durch haufige Querverweise unterstutzt wird. Berufsaspiranten, aber auch die Ausbilder selbst sollten nicht von der Lekture dieses wichtigen Beitrags absehen."Medienwissenschaft 1/91"(...) Das Buch empfiehlt sich nicht nur fur Berufsaspiranten, die sich uber die diversen Ausbildungswege ein Bild verschaffen wollen, sondern auch fur Journalisten, die nach Erganzungen suchen und die Anregungen zur Reflexion uber die Bedingungen ihres Berufes erwarten."Medium 1/92"

Weaves the colorful story of New Mexico book artists, their dedication to a timeless craft, and their extraordinary contribution to the literature of the region. From the work of nineteenth-century printers to the illustrated books created by Santa Fe and Taos art colonists in the 1920s and 1930s to contemporary printings spawned by creative-edge book artists, this is distinctly a New Mexico story.

Between the 1880s and the 1940s, opportunities for southern white women writers increased dramatically, bolstered by readers' demands for southern stories in northern periodicals. Confined by magazine requirements and social expectations, writers often relied on regional settings and tropes to attract publishers and readers before publishing work in a collection. Selecting and ordering magazine stories for these collections was not arbitrary or dictated by editors, despite a male-dominated publishing industry. Instead, it allowed writers to privilege stories, or to contextualize a story by its proximity to other tales, as a form of social commentary. For Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Katherine Anne Porter-the authors featured in this book-publishing a volume of stories enabled them to construct a narrative framework of their own. Arranging Stories: Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers is as much about how stories are constructed as how they are told. The book examines correspondence, manuscripts, periodicals, and first editions of collections. Each collection's textual history serves as a case study for changes in the periodical marketplace and demonstrates how writers negotiated this marketplace to publish stories and garner readership. The book also includes four tables, featuring collected stories' arrangements and publication histories, and twenty-five illustrations, featuring periodical publications, unpublished letters, and manuscript fragments obtained from nine on-site and digital archives. Short story collections guide readers through a spatial experience, in which both individual stories and the ordering of those stories become a framework for interpreting meaning. Arranging Stories invites readings that complicate how we engage collected works.