The document discusses how publishing has changed in the digital age. It notes that everyone can now be a published author due to easy distribution online and personalized recommendations. This has led to an "attention economy" where attention has become scarce. There are now many types of authors, such as hybrid and indie authors, as well as fanfiction writers. The attention economy challenges ideas of literary merit and value, and raises questions around how attention can be converted into currency. More research is needed on the types of content circulating in this new digital attention economy.
CPFranco - Reinventing the book - exploring the affordances of digital media ...Claudio Pires Franco
I have finally come around making my thesis publicly available.
Feel free to share and leave any feedback.
A big thank you to Professor Alexis Weedon, my supervisor at the University of Bedfordshire - you introduce me to so many amazing people in the world of books and publishing, and made me improve my ideas exponentially.
An excerpt that gives you a flavour of the key focus:
Reinventing the book?
This thesis departed from the core research question: how can the affordances of the digital medium be explored to produce new kinds of book-inspired artefacts? The question relates to the value of digital media to create new kinds of books; to whether there is indeed any value for the industry in using digital media to create new kinds of books.
This research mapped a changing landscape over the period of study, documenting important changes in the ways a range of producers — from the larger publishers and technology giants, to small start-ups and independent artists — explored digital affordances, and reacted to changes in technology and the new behaviours and expectations of contemporary audiences.
Authors, publishers and other kinds of producers have been using digital media to make new kinds of books, new kinds of texts influenced by analogue/print books, and by other media forms. Digital media - in a range of digital technologies, devices and platforms - provide a wide set of affordances that can be explored to produce new kinds of books. This thesis has shown several examples that demonstrate value for both the industry and consumers, both in terms of commercial success and critical acclaim for producers, and the pleasures offered to consumers, evident in comments, ratings and reviews, and on direct experience of trying many of these artefacts. The affordances of digital media can be explored to effectively create new digital forms of the book.
However, diverse kinds of producers see different affordances in the same set of digital media, in a similar fashion to the ways in which different animals look at the same environment in quite different ways to take advantage of different affordances (Gibson, 1986). But why does this happen? Different producers are influenced by practice; their views are shaped by what they know and by what they are able to perceive as possible (or desirable) in the digital medium. Affordances have to be perceived to be explored. Furthermore, even when perceived, there is also the question of having access to the right set of skills and experience, of being able to actually tap those affordances.
How Libraries Can Launch Community Publishing Initiatives with Self-Published...Smashwords, Inc.
This presentation was given April 11 in San Antonio, TX at the Texas Library Association annual conference. It details how public libraries have an exciting opportunity to launch community publishing initiatives, the goal of which is to marshal local community talent to produce and publish ebooks.
CPFranco - Reinventing the book - exploring the affordances of digital media ...Claudio Pires Franco
I have finally come around making my thesis publicly available.
Feel free to share and leave any feedback.
A big thank you to Professor Alexis Weedon, my supervisor at the University of Bedfordshire - you introduce me to so many amazing people in the world of books and publishing, and made me improve my ideas exponentially.
An excerpt that gives you a flavour of the key focus:
Reinventing the book?
This thesis departed from the core research question: how can the affordances of the digital medium be explored to produce new kinds of book-inspired artefacts? The question relates to the value of digital media to create new kinds of books; to whether there is indeed any value for the industry in using digital media to create new kinds of books.
This research mapped a changing landscape over the period of study, documenting important changes in the ways a range of producers — from the larger publishers and technology giants, to small start-ups and independent artists — explored digital affordances, and reacted to changes in technology and the new behaviours and expectations of contemporary audiences.
Authors, publishers and other kinds of producers have been using digital media to make new kinds of books, new kinds of texts influenced by analogue/print books, and by other media forms. Digital media - in a range of digital technologies, devices and platforms - provide a wide set of affordances that can be explored to produce new kinds of books. This thesis has shown several examples that demonstrate value for both the industry and consumers, both in terms of commercial success and critical acclaim for producers, and the pleasures offered to consumers, evident in comments, ratings and reviews, and on direct experience of trying many of these artefacts. The affordances of digital media can be explored to effectively create new digital forms of the book.
However, diverse kinds of producers see different affordances in the same set of digital media, in a similar fashion to the ways in which different animals look at the same environment in quite different ways to take advantage of different affordances (Gibson, 1986). But why does this happen? Different producers are influenced by practice; their views are shaped by what they know and by what they are able to perceive as possible (or desirable) in the digital medium. Affordances have to be perceived to be explored. Furthermore, even when perceived, there is also the question of having access to the right set of skills and experience, of being able to actually tap those affordances.
How Libraries Can Launch Community Publishing Initiatives with Self-Published...Smashwords, Inc.
This presentation was given April 11 in San Antonio, TX at the Texas Library Association annual conference. It details how public libraries have an exciting opportunity to launch community publishing initiatives, the goal of which is to marshal local community talent to produce and publish ebooks.
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Presented at Simon Fraser University, Book Publishing Immersion Workshops on July 21, 2010.
My presentation is called "Sharing Culture in Books and the Benefits of Openness: Social Networks, P2P & Infinite Digital Space."
An investigation into adaptation, digital transition in the book publishing industry.
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How Libraries Can Launch Community Publishing Initiatives with Self-Published...Smashwords, Inc.
Libraries have long provided an essential community service by making books and other information products freely available and accessible to local community patrons. Libraries play a critical role in promoting literacy, a culture of books and the joys of reading.
With the rise of ebooks, public libraries are at a crossroads. Some large traditional publishers, which fear digital lending might cannibalize retail sales of both print books and ebooks, have been hesitant to supply ebooks to libraries at the very time that library patrons are clamoring for access to such products.
This three-part presentation outlines the opportunity for libraries to expand their community role by developing programs that promote a culture of authorship. By holding seminars and classes, and by bringing local authors together with readers and aspiring authors, Libraries are uniquely qualified to orchestrate community resources and talent to help local writers become professional self-publishers. Unlike traditional publishers, self-published authors are pro-library. By developing community publishing initiatives that promote best-practices for professional self-publishing, libraries will help ensure a steady and diverse supply of high-quality books for library patrons and readers worldwide.
This series of three presentations was delivered by Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, on March 21, 2013 at the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services symposium held in Lansing, Michigan.The presentations have been combined here for ease of access.
Additional text has been added so viewers will gain contextual background for information that was delivered verbally.
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The Amplified Author and the Local Unlibrary
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Director of if:book (London)
the think and do tank exploring the future of the book in the digital age
This presentation was provided by Charles Watkinson of the University of Michigan, during the NISO Humanities Roundtable. This year's program was entitled "The Monograph in an Evolving Humanities Ecosystem," and was held on October 20, 2021.
A Bag of Words. Social Perspectives on Scholarly Editing - paper @ Social, Di...Edward Vanhoutte
The text has long been the nucleus of scholarly editing which, in their print or digital products, serves two goals: establishing the best possible text for transmission and making sure it reaches as many people as possible. This transmissional and communcative function of the scholarly edition is joined by a third one when digital and social editing is applied: engaging. Not the authoritative fixed text of the scholary edition, but the social proces of textual interaction by its participants becomes the centre of social digital editing. This social function challenges the activities of experimental modelling, and reshapes the edition in a multifunctional and multidisciplinary bag of words to be explored by students and scholars.
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In the six years from 2006 to 2012, the number of self-published books grew an astounding 270% to more than 235,000, almost as many as were published "traditionally." The easy access to publication tools and distribution mechanisms has ushered in a new era of how content is created and disseminated. No longer do authors need to work through a publisher to have their content accepted, processed, and distributed. The impacts of this revolution in publishing extend well beyond what used to be called "vanity publishing." A variety of best-selling books in recent years have come out from successful self-publishers sharing their tips on how others can follow in their footsteps.
How can publishers capitalize on this author independence? How do libraries incorporate self-published works into their acquisition processes? When there is no publisher reputation behind a title, how does a library or user separate the wheat from the chaff? This webinar will explore these issues and the impacts of the self-publishing movement on both publishers and libraries.
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This presentation is aimed at acquainting the aspirants of the National and State level Eligibility Tests with the Nobel Prize winners for Literature of the past five years i.e. 2019-2023.
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This presentation is Group presentation which is made by me and vachhalata Joshi. comparative Literature in the age of digital Humanity by Todd Presener
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Presentation on the Future of the Book,
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In the six years from 2006 to 2012, the number of self-published books grew an astounding 270% to more than 235,000, almost as many as were published "traditionally." The easy access to publication tools and distribution mechanisms has ushered in a new era of how content is created and disseminated. No longer do authors need to work through a publisher to have their content accepted, processed, and distributed. The impacts of this revolution in publishing extend well beyond what used to be called "vanity publishing." A variety of best-selling books in recent years have come out from successful self-publishers sharing their tips on how others can follow in their footsteps.
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When Authors Assume Their Own Risk
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Self-Publishing with Smashwords
Mark Coker, Founder, CEO and Chief Author Advocate, Smashwords
Helping Libraries Help Themselves: The Library Publishing Toolkit
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2. Publication in the Digital Age
● A democratic phenomenon
● “Thanks to easy replicability of the digital content, the power of search
engines and the continual development of personalized product
recommendation algorithms, the difficulties of publishing are no longer
in creating and distributing but in discoverability in an age of
hyperabundance.”
● Everyone is a published author with a potential audience
● Accessibility, Updatability, Searchability, Portability, Flexibility,
Affordability, Intertextuality and Multimedia- key terms to understand
the literary publication scenario in the digital age
3. Changes in the role of the Writer/Author
● End of the romanticized notion of the human genius
● Rise of the Demotic Author
● Self Publishing leads to Mass Authorship
● Writing becomes an everyday practice
● The book transforms from the read-only medium to read-write
medium
● Writer as a coder
● Sharing the space with AI
● Collaborative writing practice
4. Types of authors in the Digital Publishing
Age
Authors in the Digital Publishing Age can be broadly categorized into
the following types:
❖ Hybrid Authors
❖ Indie Authors
❖ Fanfiction Authors
5. Attention Economy
“When everyone becomes a publisher, attention becomes the
scarcest resource; and those who can gather and create attention are
the new bankers of an Attention Economy.”
● Converting attention into currency
● However, not all demotic authors would want attention to convert
into currency
● The Illusory Attention of the Indie and Hybrid Authors
● The notion of the Best Seller
6. So What?
● A need to redefine ideas about authorship, readership and processes of
literary production
● The attention economy challenges the notion of literary merit/value
● Literature as a means of earning
● Scope for research into the kind of content being circulated through the
texts published in and for the Attention Economy
7. References
● Goldhaber, Michael H. "The Attention Economy and the Net."
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● Skains, R. Lyle. Digital Authorship: Publishing in the Attention
Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Web. 31 August
2022.
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8. ● Warner, Brooke. What is Hybrid Publishing? Here Are 4 Things All
Writers Should Know. 11 August 2016. Writer's Digest University.
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● What is Indie Publishing? Comparing Self-Publishing. 2 April 2021.
Gatekeeper Press. web. 31 August 2022.
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