From Methods to Conclusions: The Limits of the Knowable in Digital Book History

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 785-801
Author(s):  
Leah Orr
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Digital Book

The Product and Pricing of Scholarly Books

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-140
Author(s):  
Albert N. Greco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Book History ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
Digital Book ◽  
Global Operations

Scholarly book publishing and printing has a long tradition, starting with Oxford University Press (1478) and Cambridge University Press (1584). The American colonies, and later the United States, lived in the shadow of these two great presses. While many of the US presses today are quite large, with global operations, they were, in the late 19th century and the early years of the 20th century, far from the professional operations of today. This chapter gives an introduction to book history in the United Kingdom and the United States with an emphasis on university presses and competition from commercial publishers for authors, readers, and sales. It provides a review of substantive market drivers, revenues, new title output, and production costs. A sample book contract and profit and loss statement (for a hardcover and digital book) are presented and analyzed.

scholarly journals Introducing the Beststreamer: Mapping Nuances in Digital Book Consumption at Scale

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Book History ◽  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Pricing Models ◽  
Customer Base ◽  
Large Scale Dataset ◽  
Print Books ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Digital Book

AbstractThis paper investigates consumption patterns in digital subscription-based streaming services for books by means of a large-scale dataset derived from Storytel. The aim is twofold: to empirically discuss how book consumption in the commercial top segment diverges between print books and digital streaming platforms, and to conceptually show the usefulness and considerable possibilities with computational approaches for digital publishing studies and contemporary book history. This is accomplished by introducing the concept of the beststreamer, and the average finishing degree measure. The empirical output shows large differences between print bestsellers and digital beststreamers, both in terms of genre distributions, finished streams, and levels of completion. These results are discussed in relation to factors fostering consumption patterns, such as platform design, pricing models, supply, marketing, customer base, and media-specific features of the audiobook.

scholarly journals Designing a Digital Book History of Indonesia Fine Arts as a Learning Media in Class

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. Diah Resita I. Kuntjoro-Jakti ◽  
Arif Ahmad ◽  
Yusaira Farhia ◽  
Noor Udin
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Digital Book

Conceptual solution for digital book definition

2016 ◽  
pp. 70-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Deener
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Document ◽  
Document Type ◽  
Document Structure ◽  
Digital Books ◽  
Digital Book

Digital books are considered as an electronic document type: ‘digital book’ term is defined; structure of digital books is analyzed in accordance with document structure.

Tauchnitz for Translators. The Circulation of English-language Literature in Finland

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 161-179
Author(s):  
Outi Paloposki
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Book History ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Book Production ◽  
German Publisher ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Selection Of

The article looks at book production and circulation from the point of view of translators, who, as purchasers and readers of foreign-language books, are an important mediating force in the selection of literature for translation. Taking the German publisher Tauchnitz's series ‘Collection of British Authors’ and its circulation in Finland in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as a case in point, the article argues that the increased availability of English-language books facilitated the acquiring and honing of translators' language skills and gradually diminished the need for indirect translating. Book history and translation studies meet here in an examination of the role of the Collection in Finnish translators' work.

Consortium of European Research Libraries 2008: New Challenges

2009 ◽  
pp. 80-84
Author(s):  
Nailya F. Verbina ◽  
Andrei C. Masevich
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
International Research ◽  
Book History ◽  
Bibliographic Database ◽  
European Research ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
International Research Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
History Of Culture

On the activities of one of the most significant international organizations connected with research of book history - Consortium of European Research Libraries. The creation of a bibliographic database of the printed book from 1452 to 1830, which was supposed to collect materials from libraries of Europe, was the goal of Consortium since the beginning of its foundation. The authors of the article write that today the activities of the Consortium is much broader, it turns into international research institute on the history of culture.

Middle Test Ilmu Sejarah Ayu Fajriyah

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayu Fajriyah
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Book History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Basic Test

Hello. I'm Ayu Fajriyah from Lambung Mangkurat University. This basic test I wrote aims to put forward my analysis of the development of the education system in Indonesia according to the book "History of Indonesian Education" received a lot of influence from foreign nations, both at the time of the influence of Hindu-Buddhist-Islamic development until the time of colonialism. Education has diverse characteristics and objectives and is carried out in different ways in each era.

Textual Transformations

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Book History ◽  
John Dryden ◽  
Book Production ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Lucy Hutchinson ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

This collection of twelve original essays by an international team of eminent scholars in the field of book history explores the many ways in which early modern books were subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were re-packaged, redirected and transformed in ways that their original authors might hardly recognize. The essays discuss the processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation and posthumous publication that resulted in a textual elasticity and mobility that could dissolve distinctions between text and paratexts, textuality and intertextuality, manuscript and print, author and reader or editor, such that title and author’s name are no longer sufficient pointers to a book’s identity or contents. The essays are alive to the impact of commercial and technological aspects of book production and distribution (discussing, for example, the career of the pre-eminent bookseller John Nourse, the market appeal of abridgements, and the financial incentives to posthumous publication), but their interest is also in the many additional forms of agency that shaped texts and their meanings as books were repurposed to articulate, and respond to, a variety of cultural and individual needs. They engage with early modern religious, political, philosophical and scholarly trends and debates as they discuss a wide range of genres and kinds of publication (including fictional and non-fictional prose, verse miscellanies, abridgements, sermons, religious controversy) and of authors and booksellers (including Lucy Hutchinson, Richard Baxter, Thomas Burnet, Elizabeth Rowe, John Dryden, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lucy Hutchinson, Henry Maundrell, John Nourse; Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, John Tillotson, Isaac Watts and John Wesley).

Book History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Low
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Book History ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Cultures ◽  
The Impact ◽  
History Book

This chapter discusses Book History. Drawing on the disciplinary fields of ‘analytical bibliography’ and influenced by work in Annales social history, Book History takes as its subject the cultural history and the sociology of print, and also the impact of print on the ‘thought and behaviour of mankind’ from the Gutenberg press to the present day. As books make the complicated journey from the idea to print in all its variant forms, the connections between publishing, cultural, educational, and literary institutions—and the individuals involved in these—are crucial to understanding how they emerge in print, how they are used, how they circulate, and what they mean. The chapter thus addresses the following areas of importance to the social and material histories of the Anglophone novel to 1950: the ‘glocalized’ geographies of print and trade; newspapers and local literary cultures; colonial editions; libraries, readers and writers; trade and copyright legislation.

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