Comm 70 - Ch 3 BOOKS & ch 4 Flashcards

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Linotype

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Machine, a typewriter like keyboard allowing printers to some type of mechanically rather than manually Kim

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Offset lithography

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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

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Dime novels

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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.

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Pulp novels

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Dollar bucks for a dime. The beadles democratized books and turned them into mass medium

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Censorship

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The book is censored when someone in authority limits publication of access to it

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Aliteracy

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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

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Trade books

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Include not only fiction and most non-fiction but also cookbooks, biographies, art books, coffee table books, and how to books

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E-publishing

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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.

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E-book

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Books downloaded an electronic form from the Internet to computers the readers or mobile digital devices.

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Disintermediation

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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

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Print on demand

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(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

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Remainders

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Unsold books returned to publishers to be sold at great discount.

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E-reader

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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

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Platform agnostic publishing

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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

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Imprint

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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)

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Cottage industry

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Publishing houses were small operations closely identified with the personnel. Both their own small staff and their authors. The cottage imagery, however, extends beyond the smallest of size. There was a quaintness and charm associated with publishing houses. Their attention to detail, their devotion to tradition, the care they gave to their façades “their reputations”

The world of corporate corporate conglomerates has a little room for such nice cities, as profit dominates all other considerations. Critics of corporate ownership safe profits over quality of playing recent publishing practices, such as written publishers use big data from online e-book readership not only to determine which books get published but also to help shape characters in the story lines and books as a beginner written as well as when fans read online manuscripts and when they vote on which should be published

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Subsidiary rights

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Publishers attempt to offset the large investments they do make through the sale of subsidiary rights, that is, the sale of the book, its contents, and even its characters to film makers, paperback publishers, book clubs, foreign publishers, and product producers like T-shirts, posters, coffee cups, and greeting card manufacturers

Although this is good for the profitability of the publishers and the superstar authors, critics fear that those books with the greatest subsidiary sale value will receive the most publisher attention.

As greater and greater sons are tied up and blockbusters, and subsidiary rights therefore grow in importance, the marketing, promotion and public relations surrounding a book become crucial. This leads to the additional fear that only the most promotable books will be published. Bookstores or thought it was celebrity cookbooks, celebrity picture books…

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Tie-in novels

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Books Based on popular television shows and movies have become more common.

Shows that have enjoyed novelization.

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Instant books

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