Non-traditional book publishing

Bradley, Jana; Fulton, Bruce; Helm, Marlene; Pittner, Katherine

doi:10.5210/fm.v16i8.3353

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“…While it is not possible within this introduction to discuss the large number of innovations ongoing in scholarly publishing, it would be remiss not to acknowledge however briefly some of the more prominent and recent developments such as a hybrid publishing model crafted by the University of Michigan Press and adapted by other university presses and some commercial enterprises (e.g., Bradley et al, 2011) 4 And a broad coalition of scholars and publishers has composed a manifesto for change. Called Force11 (the Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship), the website of this initiative is becoming a rich repository of materials and discussion.…”

Section: Other Developmentsmentioning

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Scholarly publishing and the internet: A NM&S themed section

Jankowski

Jones

2013

New Media & Society

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As co-editors of this themed section of New Media & Society, we introduce the four articles comprising the section and briefly address facets of the changes transpiring in scholarly publishing and, more generally, scholarly communication. A plethora of issues and developments is related to this transformation and we suggest the diversity and challenges involved. We mention one development in more detail, enhanced publishing, and conclude with promising inroads for theoretical understanding and empirical investigation of how scholarly publishing and communication are evolving.

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Section: Other Developmentsmentioning

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Scholarly publishing and the internet: A NM&S themed section

Jankowski

Jones

2013

New Media & Society

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“…A study of Ingram Coutts' activity for the 12 months from August 2013 to July 2014 shows that it was not typical. 4 During that year, the company offered 380 self-published titles to customers in the same way Original People, Original Television had been offered. Most were Canadian titles selected from LAC records and other sources.…”

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“…To get a better sense of the self-publishing market, a good place to start is Jana 4 which defines and roughly measures a number of nontraditional publishing avenues from self-published e-books to publisher-supported "nontraditional" publishing. To support the idea that self-publishing is currently driven by e-books, they found that the sales of self-published print books averaged in the hundreds per year (with a handful of exceptional titles) and that only 27% of the sample titles were held by libraries.…”

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Self-Publishing and Collection Development : Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries

Holley¹

2015

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Index 179i Katina Strauch, the founder of the Charleston Conference (and a leader of the editorial board of this series of books), has a fantastic vision and drive, as anyone who knows her will attest. The first time I met her, someone brought her to our offices (also located in Charleston) for a show-and-tell tour. As she wandered into BookSurge in 2003, I am sure she was uncertain what to make of the ragtag bunch trying to change the publishing industry. Our offices were "uptown" behind a fried chicken restaurant dumpster and next to a bingo parlor that was held up at gunpoint as we conducted meetings in the front office one day. We found bullet casings in the parking lot all the time. Despite these bleak surroundings, she was nice to me, she was curious about the publishing and print-on-demand business we had built out of those humble beginnings, and she made me a part of her conference the following year. We became friends, and she continues to be an inspiration to me.Several years later, she invited me to put together a plenary session on libraries and self-publishing for the Charleston Conference. At that point, I had sold BookSurge to Amazon.com, had moved to Seattle to integrate the company and technology, and had come a long way from those ragtag, strip mall, bingo parlor days. I worked at Amazon for two years after the sale, helping to turn BookSurge into CreateSpace, now the world's largest and most successful self-publishing company.I suppose as an early self-publishing visionary-and because I was now a part of the library industry with our new company BiblioLabs-she Foreword Mitchell Davis, BiblioLabsii | Self-Publishing and Collection Development thought I would be good to put together the plenary. It was a huge hit. It was one of those Charleston Conference sessions where people pour over into the hallways and ask questions remotely while watching on closed-circuit television in another room. We definitely felt like we were onto something.The next year, she asked if I could do a preconference on the same topic. I jumped at the chance and was able to convince some of the best brains and the most entertaining people in the library and publishing world to come debate the topic for half a day. It was an inspiring day for everyone who attended and had a chemistry I have yet to see in a conference of its type.This resulting book is the product of the conversation Charles Watkinson and I had afterward. At the time, Charles was the director of Purdue University Press, and he had delivered a fantastic presentation on what he was doing within the organization to facilitate self-publishing. We were still buzzing from the day's activity and discussing how the day had uncovered more honest ways to think about and talk about self-publishing in academia. I had called the preconference "Self Pub 2.0," attempting to convey the idea that self-publishing was a technology revolution entering a new phase-that at the end of the day technology could be applied in any way the imagination saw fit.I still got resistance to...

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“…These encompass a variety of non-traditional publishing models, including publishing with an independent press, a self-publishing service, or a print-on-demand publisher (see Bradley et al, 2011). Self-publishing may be a more desirable option for authors who are not discovered by a reputed publisher.…”

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The traveler as author: examining self-presentation and discourse in the (self) published travel blog

Azariah

2016

Media, Culture & Society

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From the perspective of Goffman’s theories of self-presentation, travel blogs can be described as narratives that indicate the different roles occupied by an individual’s online self. A blogger may discursively position the self as a traveler, rather than a tourist, a dichotomy that underpins much critical debate in the area of travel and tourism studies, thus creating tensions within the blog. These tensions are heightened when blogs presented as accounts of travel are published as guidebooks or books that promote tourism. It can be argued that in such cases the act of publishing commercializes these narratives and introduces an element of touristic discourse. Moreover, the choice of either a legacy publisher or a self-publishing service can have implications for how a travel blogger may be presented and perceived as a reputable published author. Against this background, this article explores how travel blogs negotiate the discursive tensions produced as a result of the presentation of various aspects of self, particularly as a published author and as a traveler as opposed to a tourist.

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Non-traditional book publishing

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Scholarly publishing and the internet: A NM&S themed section

Scholarly publishing and the internet: A NM&S themed section

Self-Publishing and Collection Development : Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries

The traveler as author: examining self-presentation and discourse in the (self) published travel blog

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