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)

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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