new media culture- books & magazines

Question 0

700:

Answer 0

Arab traders introduce paper tithe west

Question 1

Who said “books are really machines to think with”?

Answer 1

I.A. Richards

Question 2

1234:

Answer 2

Movable metal type is invented in Korea

Question 3

1455:

Answer 3

Gutenberg bible is published

Question 4

1641:

Answer 4

First book published in the American colonies

Question 5

1731:

Answer 5

First magazine is published

Question 6

1950s

Answer 6

Advertising shifts from magazines to television

Question 7

1990s

Answer 7

Magazine-like pages and sites appear on the Internet

Question 8

2004

Answer 8

Google and others put book contents online

Question 9

2007:

Answer 9

Companies experiment with e-book tablets and screens

Question 10

2009:

Answer 10

Kindle books can be read on iPhone and iPod

Question 11

2010:

Answer 11

In July, amazon.com reported that e-books for the kindle outsold hard cover books by 143-100

Question 12

What was the first print media began to copy?

Answer 12

Religious texts

Question 13

Who published the first American non religious book?

Answer 13

Benjamin Franklin, and the “poor richard’s almanack in 1732.

Question 14

Who started the old farmer’s almanac?

Answer 14

Robert B. Thomas in 1792. The oldest regularly published periodical in America

Question 15

When did the first American develop? What was the name?

Answer 15

1741, in Philadelphia. American magazine. Many mags in the 1700 were called “miscellanies” because of their wide variety of content

Question 16

What year did the US congress pass the copyright act?

Answer 16

1790

Question 17

What became popular in the late 1900s?

Answer 17

Novels

Question 18

What were “dime novels”?

Answer 18

(penny dreadfuls in great Britain) were cheap novels that involved dark humor an catered to a wider audience. Mainly middle class readers (working class)

Question 19

What replaced dime novels and when?

Answer 19

Pulp magazines. First was published in 1869.

Question 20

What happen by the 20th century?

Answer 20

Most Americans were literate at this point. So they could afford small luxuries like magazine and books. This emerged new genres of magazines, newspapers digests etc.

Question 21

Where do magazines make profit?

Answer 21

From subscriptions, single-volume sales, and advertising

Question 22

List the top 10 circulating Canadian magazines:

Answer 22

1. Maclean’s
2. TV guide
3. Reader’s Digest
4. Chatelaine
5. Time
6. Canadian Living
7. 7jours/ TV jours
8. Homemaker’s/ madame au foyer
9. TV Hebdo
10. L’actualitè