Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is Codex?
A book with pages bound together and enclosed within a cover; the format used for modern books.
What is scriptoria?
Rooms in monasteries where monks copied, decorated, and preserved volumes.
What is illuminated manuscript?
A handwritten document in which the text is embellished by decorative additions, including borders and illustrations.
What is mechanical moveable type?
Method of printing created by Johannes Gutenberg that uses small, movable letters
What is vernacular?
The native language of a population.
What is Chapbooks?
An inexpensive, pocket-sized booklet popular from the 16th to 19th centuries, usually containing popular literature such as folk ballads, religious tracts, or children’s stories.
What is copy-right?
The exclusive rights given to a work’s creator or author, which include the right to copy, distribute, and adapt the work.
What is public-domain?
Works not covered by intellectual property law or for which copyright protection has expired. Works in the public domain are essentially public property.
What is fair use?
An aspect of copyright law that specifies the ways in which a work (or parts of a work) under copyright can legally be used by someone other than the copyright holder.
What is epistolary novel?
A book made up of letters of correspondence.
What is Genre fiction?
Works that are intended to fit into a known genre or category, such as western, romance, mystery, or science fiction.
What is Pulp stories?
Sensationalistic stories from books and magazines that were named for the cheap, wood-pulp paper they were printed on.
What is Beat Generation?
The name given to a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s and who were known for literary experimentation and nonconformity.
What is Multicultural literature?
Works that promoted cross-cultural understanding by examining different value systems, histories, traditions, and speech patterns of people in America.
What is Paperback originals?
A book with an initial print run in paperback instead of hardcover.
What is Mass-Market paperbacks?
A paperback format that is generally small and inexpensively bound.
What is Trade paperbacks?
A paperback format that is generally of higher quality; a paperback version of a hardcover edition, with identical pagination and size.
What is Block-buster syndrome?
The publishing industry’s focus on books with bestseller potential.
What is Digital decay?
The breakdown of data stored in digital form.
What is advance?
A sum of money paid to the author in expectation of future royalties.
What is Royalties?
A percentage of a book’s sales granted to its author.
What is Print run?
All the copies of a book created in one setup of the printing apparatus.
What is Wholesale price?
The basic cost of a book or other item to a retailer before the addition of any retail profit.
What is Digital Library?
A library that stores its collections digitally so they are accessible by computer.
What is Orphan works?
Works still protected by copyright, but the copyright owner is unknown or difficult to determine.
What is Print-on Demand?
A printing technology in which new copies of a book are not created until an order is received.
What is Self-publishing?
A publishing system in which an author, not a third-party company, is in charge of producing and publishing a work.
What is vanity presses?
A pejorative term for a publishing house that publishes books at the author’s expense.
