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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