Danielle Boden
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E-Publishing
Lecture 3
Blog 3
Lulu: An online publishing site that gives you the facility to turn ay text, or photographs into a book within an hour.
In the olden days a Scribner would be employed to write letters on behalf of companies ad most importantly copy contracts! There were no duplicating machines in those days therefore everything had to be copied by hand.
Gutenberg Project: Collecting texts that are out of copyright in America.
Copyright: The issue with text, when is its expiry date?
There is no need for a licence to sell an online book this is just for third parties. A Gutenberg licence gives you the facility, permission and conformation about the text that is on the Gutenberg website as to whether or not you can use and sell it.
Question: Does copyright belong to one person? i.e. if you can publish Emma on Gutenberg then who owns the copyright? You or Penguin books etc that are still publishing Emma today?
Orality and literacy:
Print and writing are two different things.
1) Profound effect on society as once something is written down on paper there is no going back you can’t change it.
2) Paper is tangible but who owns it?
3) There is more of an importance on spelling and grammar.
The written book has also secluded us as a person because before you would sit in a group of people listening to the stories being told but now there is the infamous saying of ‘I will go and take my book and sit in a quite corner’.
The effects initially on the world when print became available was that there was uproar that it was expensive so not all classes could afford it but also regardless of this people could read for themselves therefore decipher if they wanted to believe something or not and interpret it in their own ways. In relation to the bible the printed book brought along the reformation because before a limited amount of people would tell the story of the bible and when doing so would speak in Latin so it was kept as private as possible, now it as being written down, translated etc it meant people could decide for themselves. People did no like this shift in story telling and mass producing text and this is the similar transition that we are seeing now people do not want to change as the whole way in what you trust is dependable.
The 21st century book: Typesetting and then printed but now we have files.
These files are standardised.
PDF: Run through Adobe.
XML/HTML; Hypertext mark-up language. Standardised version of the text XML.
Book Meta; metadata, data about data.
Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
Blog ya' later!
elephants_are_supercool
Hi Danielle,Not every one would have the idea of explaining and breaking down more information publishing. You have showed that you understood and can explain what was thought in class. I like the way you explain more. I think you need to be careful on your font size and the kind of font you use in writing, it can make an interesting topic boring or hard to read if not good. Apart from that, I enjoyed reading your article and learned one or two things.
ReplyDeleteHi Danielle,
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed these; the best bits are where you talk about your reactions to ideas from class.
"The effects initially on the world when print became available was that there was uproar" -- was it possible to have an "uproar" before texts were widely available in the form of periodicals?
Eben