Shifting Authority: (Ex)Changing Roles in the Evolving Publishing Environment.
Authority is a key concept within the publishing industry. The various actors of the publishing process hold some form of authority, from the publisher who is considered both a qualitative and quantitative authority, to the reader who has the authority to choose and the power to buy. Recent changes...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 53 - 65 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2013
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=91761707&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 91761707 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14479516 17TF jtl: International Journal of the Book issn: 14479516 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2013 vid: 10 iid: 4 pid: 22359 pub: Common Ground Research Networks artinfo: ui: 91761707 10.18848/1447-9516/CGP/v10i04/37000 ppf: 53 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 250KB tig: atl: Shifting Authority: (Ex)Changing Roles in the Evolving Publishing Environment. aug: au: Carolan, Simon Evain, Christine affil: Ecole Centrales de Nantes, France su: Publishing Qualitative research Workflow Internet Business models Distributors (Commerce) sug: subj: Publishing Qualitative research Workflow Internet Business models Distributors (Commerce) keyword: Authority ab: Authority is a key concept within the publishing industry. The various actors of the publishing process hold some form of authority, from the publisher who is considered both a qualitative and quantitative authority, to the reader who has the authority to choose and the power to buy. Recent changes to the industry, including the development of "digital-born" material and the important growth in self-publishing, are shaking the foundations of traditional publishing and changing the relationships between its players, as actors bypass each other and develop new creative, production and trading methods. As readers become authors, authors become distributors, distributors become publishers and publishers become cost-conscious, the traditional publishing hierarchy is being redefined. This redefinition raises the following questions: What does it mean to be an "authority"? How do industry players achieve and sustain authority? What is the composition of these new hierarchies? As the industry moves to collaborative production, is the process becoming democratic? As publishers face increasing competition, is it possible for them to uphold the standards that have established their authority? What are the implications of the "reputational economy"? Is the book the ultimate victim of this power struggle? The aim of this article is to define changing relations, to look at the emerging business models and to analyse the effect of these changes on both book production and book content. The contents of this article are based on the personal testimonies of authors, distributors, publishers and other industry players as well as print, journal and Internet articles and industry case studies. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of International Journal of the Book is the property of Common Ground Research Networks and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: International Journal of the Book holder: Common Ground Research Networks dt: @attributes: year: 2013 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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