Comm 70 - Ch 3 BOOKS & ch 4 Flashcards
Linotype
Machine, a typewriter like keyboard allowing printers to some type of mechanically rather than manually Kim
Offset lithography
Permitting printing from photographic plates rather than from heavy fragile metal casts.
The combination of linotype and offset lithograph he it’s technically improved lower cost printing and therefore lowers cost publication and widespread literacy produced the flowering of the novel in the 1800s
Dime novels
Tencent novels were inexpensive because they concentrated on frontier and adventure stories they attract a growing numbers of readers. Within five years of their start over 4 million volumes of what we’re also sometimes called pop novels were produced.
Pulp novels
Dollar bucks for a dime. The beadles democratized books and turned them into mass medium
Censorship
The book is censored when someone in authority limits publication of access to it
Aliteracy
People possess the ability to read but are unwilling to do so
33% of American high school graduates will have to read a book after school. 42% of college students won’t read another one after they graduate.
Sensors Bannockburn books because books are repositories of ideas, ideas that can be read and considered limited outside influence or official supervision. What kind of culture develops win, by our own refusal to read books, we figuratively save the sensors the trouble of striking the match
Trade books
Include not only fiction and most non-fiction but also cookbooks, biographies, art books, coffee table books, and how to books
E-publishing
The publication of books initially or exclusively in digital format.
also a first offers a new way for writers ideas to be published. Many of today’s books are no longer composed of paper pages.
E-book
Books downloaded an electronic form from the Internet to computers the readers or mobile digital devices.
Disintermediation
Eliminating gatekeepers between artists and audiences. Eliminate the middleman and more original content of greater variety comes fresher voices gets to more people. Keep the middleman and quality is assured, and while in occasional interesting work or new the boys might be missed, the industries overall product remain superior. For books, this intermediation in the form of self publication runs the gamut from completely self published and promote it works so publishing within assist, with digital publishers providing a full range of services. Copy editing, securing and commissioning artwork, cover, design, promotion and in some cases distribution of traditional paperbacks to brick and mortar bookstores
Print on demand
(POD)
Another form of a publishing. This store works digitally and, once ordered, a book can be instantly printed, bound, and sent. Alternatively, once ordered, that can be printed and bound in bookstores that has the proper technology. The advantage for a publisher and Writter is financial. POD books required no warehouse for storage, there are no reminders
Remainders
Unsold books returned to publishers to be sold at great discount.
E-reader
Digital devices with the appearance of traditional books that display content That is digitally stored and accessed.
First failed attempts. Then a BOOM! with Amazons Kindle, apples iPad, Barnes & Noble nook
Platform agnostic publishing
Digital in traditional paper box available for any and all reading devices.
Devices themselves will continue to be involved, with advances such as flexible screen so then they can be rolled up and fully text functional in readers that let users copy and paste text to word documents on their computers. In anticipation of growth of the publishing some traditional publishers have abandoned paper back books altogether
Imprint
Individual book publishing companies
More than any other medium, the book and straight into the 70s and 80s was dominated by relatively small operations. Publishing houses were traditionally staffed by fewer than 20 people, the large majority by fewer than 10. Today however although tens of thousands of businesses call themselves book publishers, they only only a very small percentage produces four more titles a year. The industry is dominated now by the so-called big five publishing houses. Penguin Random House (250 imprints) Hachette (23 imprints) Harper Collins (120 imprints)