Danielle Boden
elu6d2
E-Publishing
Lecture 1
Blog 1
James Joyce – The last novel. No one wanted to print his book because it contained nudity and poor grammar. They used cheap paper to print the book at the book store whom printed it originally still stands and is running today in Paris.
• Artefact
• ‘Old’ publishing methods
How have we moved from the tangible books to the non-physical nature that is online publishing?
What is the definition of a book in the 21st century?
Does it still have the same meaning?
What is publishing? We now have the opportunity for both authors and consumers to opt for publishing on demand whereby you can have a book published only as and when a customer wishes to purchase it.
Look at publishing like music - Spotify
Course Structure:
• The publishing value chain.
• What is a: book, author and publisher by today?
• Disruptive technology, what is this?
• How are things shifting in the publishing/e-publishing world? E Publishing is more interactive for the consumer, but a physical book is tangible, keepsake.
• Visual novels; gives you the opportunity of different ways of telling stories. Inanimate Alice, you will create your own as part of the course. Look at this and other visual novels for research.
Books also have never always been around before these stories were told by word or mouth.
Word or mouth – Books – E-Publishing… huge leaps in time and massive changes… what went on in-between these changes how have things developed?
Portfolio:
1) Write a blog on Blogger.com each week about the lecture. What you have learnt, positives, negatives, agree/disagree, anything you would like to add, comments, feedback, thoughts and feelings about what you have learnt is there anything else you would like to learn, will you be looking anything up for yourself?
Send link to Eben for the blog so that he can access it and review what has been written for marking, 3 out of the 12 ill be looked at closely an if you miss a lecture this will become one of the 3 that will be marked.
e.muse@bangor.ac.uk
2) Develop and e publishing project, a visual novel.
3) 2000 word critique (what have you created, what are the outcomes, what would you change, positives, negatives, successes, failures, problem, context, method, outcomes and conclusion.)
What is e-publishing?
Definitions;
• Way of telling stories/expressing views.
• Online/World Wide Web so global access/Available everywhere.
• Interchangeable.
• Not set in stone, ever changing.
• Non physical
• Vast audience.
• Direct.
• Multimedia.
• Multiplatform.
• Distribution.
• Interactive.
• Contextual.
- Interactive worldwide access to a multiplatform media service.
- Ever changing interactive worldwide access to a multimedia platform that is without limits or rules.
- Digital distribution of content to a public audience distribution, which may define its own audience.
For next week;
1) Write out first blog.
2) Read J. Epstein (how publishing has changed).
3) Browse through elegies.
4) Read first few chapters of ‘Books in a Digital Age’ by Don P Thompson.
Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
Blog ya' later!
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