Category Archives: History of Publishing Observations

Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary

Sarah Ogilvie’s Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary begins by describing her entry into the quiet world of the OED. She had come from of Australian branch of Oxford dictionaries, was a rare linguist … Continue reading

Posted in History of Publishing Observations, Language, What People Are Reading | Comments Off

History of Publishing Wrap Up , part 3

Another new deal for authors is Amazon Select and the opportunity for authors with a decent backlist (and the digital rights to their work) to manage their own sales. An engaging presence and a commitment of marketing and systematic discounts … Continue reading

Posted in History of Publishing Observations, Ideas and Opinions | Comments Off

History of Publishing Wrap Up, part 2

We had a lot of discussion, in fits and starts, about the roles of authors and publishers. Consolidation in the 1980s brought things to a point where, as Molly Tinsley stressed, the large publishers were no longer invested in or … Continue reading

Posted in History of Publishing Observations, Ideas and Opinions | Comments Off

History of Publishing Wrap Up

I enjoyed the history of publishing papers from the spring term and as I file them away (well, really just find a place to pile them in my needs-to-be-tidied up office) I’m thinking about some of big topics we covered … Continue reading

Posted in History of Publishing Observations, Ideas and Opinions | Comments Off

The Future of Books and Reading

The presentation of the HD Reader, along with the growing significance of audiobooks–which have been around for much longer–leads us to a natural question: what is reading? Does it include these new technological steps where we listen and imagine instead … Continue reading

Posted in History of Publishing Observations, Ideas and Opinions | Comments Off

Kudos to our Spring Guest Speakers

The spring term has just about come to an end and I want to take a minute to thank our terrific History of Publishing guest lecturers this term. Each of them helped us to home in on what is going … Continue reading

Posted in History of Publishing Observations | Comments Off

Instant communication hurting artistic tendancies?

As I sit here with my V8 considering what to write about for my very first blog post (I know, the lashes should be coming any minute now for being this late), I consider what I’ve done with the last … Continue reading

Posted in History of Publishing Observations, Ideas and Opinions | Comments Off

Nicholas Andelin’s interview with Dr. Warren Hedges of Southern Oregon University

Dr. Warren Hedges grew up in Springfield, Missouri, in a very conservative town (John Ashcroft is from there; Jerry Falwell went to college there; Jimmy Swaggart & Jim Baker got called back there to be defrocked). This left Warren with a … Continue reading

Posted in History of Publishing Observations, Ideas and Opinions, Interviews | Comments Off

How Do Fans Affect The Writing of Games’ Rulebooks?

As a recent convert to the almost-religion of tabletop gaming, I have been watching the recent development of the metagame (a term coined by the community to represent the community’s own dialogue regarding the rules and how the game company … Continue reading

Posted in History of Publishing Observations, Ideas and Opinions | Comments Off

Re: The Digital Shift

Although I did not attend the “From Print to Pixels” event, I am fascinated by the influence of technology and emerging media on culture and long-held customs. A recent theme in my studies involves contemplating the possibility of reconciling global … Continue reading

Posted in History of Publishing Observations, Ideas and Opinions | Comments Off
http://literaryashland.org/?cat=4
literaryashland.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2013-20
34137
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:F3IM4T5MJFBWSYMDS54XRT7XP7VGQQUF
<urn:uuid:a677bb92-2e7b-4bc9-a904-097c272f538b>
2013-05-19T12:16:12Z
184.168.184.1
sha1:FNK4KCWSHIPZYWZC3MY7J4BTDFNRABQL
<urn:uuid:33796be8-7070-438d-8b8f-d775be371c71>
http://literaryashland.org/?cat=4
response
<urn:uuid:4606a5b6-26df-4eaf-9b2c-ca0857cbd8c1>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-20
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Spring 2013
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf