The Literary Web - Table of contents
Johan Svedjedal, The Literary Web: Literature and Publishing in the Age of Digital Production. A Study in the Sociology of Literature, Acta Bibliothecæ Regiæ Stockholmiensis, LXII (Stockholm: Kungl. Biblioteket, 2000)
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 | |
Introduction | 9 | |
1. | The Book Dethroned | 17 |
Books and the Media Revolutions | 17 | |
The Gutenberg Capacity | 26 | |
Railroads | 34 | |
Electricity | 38 | |
Radio | 42 | |
The Internet – Change Revisited | 45 | |
2. | With No Direction Home | 49 |
Dimensions of Textuality | 49 | |
From Texts to Hyperworks | 51 | |
Suspense and Curiosity – the Double Helix of Narrative | 63 | |
Temporary Structures in "The Speckled Band" | 78 | |
Temporal Structures and Multisequentiality | 83 | |
Hyperreading and Zap Reading | 88 | |
3. | Busy Being Born or Busy Dying? | 93 |
Beyond the Book | 93 | |
Books and Other Media | 96 | |
Authors and Publishers | 100 | |
Literary Responsitivity and the Unspoken Rules of | 111 | |
Publishing | ||
Functions in Publishing | 114 | |
Functions in Other Professions in the Book Trade | 120 | |
Beyond the Book Chain: a New Model of Functions | 125 | |
in the Book Trade | ||
4. | Something Old, Something New | 133 |
Quality Control | 133 | |
Publishing on the Internet | 135 | |
Print On Demand – Cheaper Printing or Publishing | 141 | |
Somebody You Love? | ||
Marketing Publishing – Traditional Publishers and the | 149 | |
Internet | ||
Internet Bookshops | 152 | |
Networking the Net – Links and Conferences | 162 | |
5. | Almqvist on the Internet | 175 |
Work in Progress | 175 | |
C. J. L. Almqvist's Collected Works | 176 | |
The Digitization of a Book Project | 178 | |
From Editor to Reader | 188 | |
Other Swedish Critical Editions on the Internet | 190 | |
Copyright and Freedom of Information – the Net | 192 | |
Book Disagreement | ||
Conclusion | 197 | |
Internet Domains | 203 | |
Bibliography | 205 | |
List of Tables | 215 | |
Index | 217 | |
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