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Robin Birtle 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2011,27(4):345-353
The combination of Japan’s large, prosperous population and its thriving consumer electronics industry appears to the outside
world to be an ideal environment for eBook adoption. In fact, despite cross industry initiatives that date back to 2003, widespread
digitization of books is limited to Japanese comics (manga). This article will explain the origins of the Japanese eBook market,
its current state and the looming entry of Amazon, Apple and Google. Finally, this article will explore the two very different
paths that the Japanese publishing industry may take over the next 5 years. 相似文献
2.
A. Bruce Strauch 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1994,10(1):66-72
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1991 decision in the Feist case wiped away the idea that “sweat of the brow” is adequate for a copyright
claim. The history of the relevant issues is discussed and the Court’s decision is examined. The decision has a number of
implications for publishers but leaves many questions unanswered. 相似文献
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Helen R. Tibbo 《Archival Science》2006,6(2):231-245
Archivists in North America have described, discussed, and debated the necessary and optimal content, configuration, and venue
for archival education for close to a century but have given little consideration to integrating technology within archival
curricula. Increasingly, archivists are faced with a high tech world in which they must understand issues including information
systems, the nature of electronic records and databases, record migration, digitization, and web design and creation for provision
of access. This paper explores the nature and extent of information technology and information science coursework and knowledge
discussed in the Society of American Archivists’ Guidelines for a Graduate Program in Archival Studies and that students have
available to them while in archival programs. It concludes with a proposal for Library and Information Science education programs
that prepare archivists to explore developing Certificate of Advanced Studies programs in archival management on top of master’s
degrees to allow for additional information science coursework. 相似文献
4.
Fiorella Foscarini 《Archival Science》2010,10(4):389-407
Current records management methodologies and practices suffer from an inadequate understanding of the ‘human activity systems’
where records managers operate as ‘mediators’ between a number of complex and interacting factors. Although the records management
and archival literature recognizes that managing the active life of the records is fundamental to their survival as meaningful
evidence of activities, the context where the records are made, captured, used, and selectively retained is not explored in
depth. In particular, the various standards, models, and functional requirement lists, which occupy a vast portion of that
literature, especially in relation to electronic records, do not seem to be capable of framing records-related ‘problems’
in ways that account for their dynamic and multiform nature. This paper introduces the idea that alternative, ‘softer’ approaches to the analysis of organizational functions, structures, agents, and artifacts may usefully complement the ‘hard’, engineering-like approaches typically drawn on by information and records specialists. Three interrelated theoretical and
methodological frameworks—namely, Soft Systems Methodology, Adaptive Structuration Theory, and Genre Theory—are discussed,
with the purpose of highlighting their contributions to our understanding of the records context. 相似文献
5.
Mary Ann Gillies 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1993,9(1):20-33
Today it would be hard to imagine the publishing world without literary agents. But agents are relative newcomers. The first
arrived on the British literary scene some time in the late 1870s; A. P. Watt is generally regarded as the first true agent.
It was Watt who defined the role and function of the agent and established a standard of conduct by which his contemporaries
and successors were measured. Watt’s activities had great impact on the business of publishing and on the types of literature
writers produced. In fact, the agent was one of the main factors in the radical transformation of the publishing world that
occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. This article looks at Watt’s legacy: it focuses on both the publishing world
and the institution of the literary agency. It suggests that Watt was a dominant force in both and that, without him, literary
agency might not have prospered so well or so quickly.
She studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received her D.Phil. in 1988. She is working on a book about the British literary
agent. 相似文献
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The deployment of Web 2.0 technologies has led to rapid growth of various opinions and reviews on the web, such as reviews
on products and opinions about people. Such content can be very useful to help people find interesting entities like products,
businesses and people based on their individual preferences or tradeoffs. Most existing work on leveraging opinionated content
has focused on integrating and summarizing opinions on entities to help users better digest all the opinions. In this paper,
we propose a different way of leveraging opinionated content, by directly ranking entities based on a user’s preferences.
Our idea is to represent each entity with the text of all the reviews of that entity. Given a user’s keyword query that expresses
the desired features of an entity, we can then rank all the candidate entities based on how well opinions on these entities
match the user’s preferences. We study several methods for solving this problem, including both standard text retrieval models
and some extensions of these models. Experiment results on ranking entities based on opinions in two different domains (hotels
and cars) show that the proposed extensions are effective and lead to improvement of ranking accuracy over the standard text
retrieval models for this task. 相似文献
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Ruthellen Crews 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1989,5(2):35-41
Despite frequent criticisms of basal readers, most teachers use them as a basic instructional tool or as a springboard for
other reading activities. Basals play an important role in translating research into practice. As our understanding of the
reading process changes, so do the contents of basal readers. Used selectively and with judgment, basals can help teachers
provide a research-based reading program for today’s children. Through understanding how teachers use these materials, publishers
can design basals to meet their needs more effectively.
Ruthellen Crews teaches children’s literature and language arts courses in the College of Education at the University of Florida.
She has coauthored a language arts series and a basal reading series. Formerly a classroom teacher at elementary and secondary
levels, she strongly supports an integrated approach to teaching. 相似文献
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S. K. Ghai 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2009,25(4):264-270
Children’s literature is essentially different from textbooks used in classrooms. It was primarily developed in India after
the establishment of Children’s Book Trust and National Book Trust in 1957. A truly multilingual phenomenon, Amar Chitra Katha was developed by India Book House and has sold over 80 million copies in some 30 years. The Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan programme
started by the Government of India, has done exceptionally well in developing and encouraging the development of children’s
literature in regional languages. English being the language of communication is understood in all parts of the country so
more books have been published in this language. Reading habits of children have been developed through reading campaigns
by Non Government Organisations (NGOs), Children Literary Festivals, Book Fairs, School Book Fairs and Book Clubs. International
and Indian Characters have also increased the publishing of children’s books and reading habits of children. 相似文献
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The development of the publishing industry for children and young adults is very recent in Morocco. Indeed it was in the 1980s
that people became aware of its importance for future generations. The first national publications were mainly in Arabic language,
stories were very short, books were of paperback format and the subjects were very much dominated by moral, social and religious
didacticism. In the late 1990s, publishers started being more and more concerned with the appearance of the book (size, cover,
illustrations, topic, etc.) and there are nowadays two publishers specialized only in children’s books—Yanbow al Kitab and
Yomad—who produce books that respond to international norms. They are both very active in promoting reading and especially
allowing children from disadvantaged social backgrounds to have access to books, price being a main constraint for those children.
But there is still a lack of publishers specialized in children’s books in Morocco (two publishers for the whole country),
not enough pleasant reading spaces and no real government policy to allow mass access by making books cheaper. 相似文献
10.
Nicholas Popper 《Archival Science》2010,10(3):249-266
This article investigates the long-term transformations in England’s documentary storage regime wrought by the Reformation.
Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries famously resulted in the dispersal and destruction of many medieval texts and
records, but he and his successors sponsored efforts to retrieve lost materials, which they then used in the formation of
ecclesiastical policy. Elizabethan counselors expanded the scope of this project, applying their expertise in gathering records
to secular issues and assiduously preserving their own documents. During James I’s reign, the Earl of Salisbury’s patronage
gave new authority to the State Paper Office, encouraging the consolidation of a centralizing archive that integrated earlier
methods of collection, preservation, and indexing in its operation and construction. The article thus offers an analytic trajectory
tying the practices of Reformation to the development of expanding national archives in the seventeenth century. 相似文献
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Keeping cultures alive: archives and Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Archives play an important role in the cultural survival of Indigenous Australians. The wave of colonisation has had such
an impact on Indigenous communities and the transmission of culture that access to records, materials, photographs and films
is, for Indigenous people, a key way of keeping culture. Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights are Indigenous
people’s rights to their heritage. Archival organisations and museums collect and preserve Indigenous people’s culture. In
the past, this has been from an ethnographic eye, but the contemporary challenge is to work with Indigenous people to make
the archives alive, to foster and promote Indigenous cultural knowledge and cultural expression, and innovation. 相似文献
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Pam Fochtman 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2007,23(4):254-261
After settling in to his second term, Brazil’s president Lula da Silva has pledged to improve on his country’s woefully inadequate
education system. This means addressing illiteracy, which is one of Brazil’s most serious development issues. While Brazil
has the potential to be one of the world’s largest economies, it is hampered by high rates of functional illiteracy. Furthermore,
those that can read are non-readers. Consequently the Brazilian government has pledged to resolve illiteracy and launched
a nationwide reading program in 2005 with the optimistic goal of increasing the national reading rate by 50%. The article
analyzes the political risk in Brazil in light of the da Silva administration’s stated objectives. It will also assess the
impact of state literacy campaigns will have on the publishing industry and the potential for investment in the country. Finally,
it will discuss the importance of foreign investors in Brazil’s development goals. 相似文献
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John Y. Cole 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1996,12(2):38-49
With generous support from Congress and the American people, the Library of Congress has become the largest library in the
world. Its extensive and varied publishing programs reflect the growing demands of its many and diverse consituencies; the
innovative uses of new technologies; and the institution’s efforts, especially in the last decade, to reach broader and more
general audiences. Recent projects include the first steps in digitizing and making available selected portions of the Library’s
historical collections; the first sustained effort to develop cooperative endeavors with trade publishers; and the launching
ofCivilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress. This brief history outlines the evolution of publishing at the Library of Congress, from an eight-page booklist published
in 1801 to the cooperative public-private programs and electronic products of the 1990s.
John Y. Cole has been director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress since it was established in 1977. 相似文献
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Abstract This study reports on outcomes of an investigation of visitors' longterm memories of the 1970 Japan World Exposition, Osaka. The paper reports in two parts the emergent outcomes of a study that provides understanding of the nature of visitors' long‐term memories of their experiences in an informal leisure‐time context. First, the paper discusses the common and most dominant recollections that emerged from 48 visitors' memories of this event 34 years ago. An overall explication of visitors' memories of their experiences of the event reveals an interesting mix of reactions: wonderment about the world and the amazing technological advances of the era, blended with personal discomfort and frustrations associated with the memories. These mixed feelings are presented against the backdrop of Japanese national identity re‐emergent on the world stage. Second, an analysis and discussion of qualitative data provides case examples of how three psychological and behavioral factors (affect, agenda fulfillment, and rehearsal) shape the vividness of episodic and/or autobiographical memories of the episodes as they are recalled 34 years later. This paper vividly illustrates the power of qualitative data to illuminate understanding of visitors' long‐term memories and presents some significant issues for museum staff to consider as they plan for visitor experiences that will have lasting impact. 相似文献
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Casey E. Brienza 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2009,25(2):101-117
The market for Japanese comics, called manga, in the United States grew rapidly at the beginning of the twenty first century
at a rate unprecedented in the publishing industry. Sales grew a remarkable 350% from $60 million in 2002 to $210 million
in 2007 and did not begin to decline until the beginning of the recent economic downturn beginning in late 2008. No published
research is yet able to account for this phenomenon in a manner that is both socially-situated and medium-specific. In this
paper, I provide such a sociological account of the rise of manga in the United States and its implications for the globalization
of culture. Adapting Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical formulation of the cultural field, I argue that manga migrated from the
comics field to the book field and that the ways in which industry practices, distribution networks, and target demographics
differ between the two fields are directly responsible for the medium’s newfound visibility. Furthermore, I argue that, despite
the now-common transparency of the Japanese origin of Japanese titles, the American publishing industry’s creation of manga
as a category of books distinct from other comics is an ineluctable naturalizing process that ultimately erases from American
consciousness the Japanese, the foreign, the other.
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Annette Beetz 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2008,24(2):129-132
This paper gives an overview of how publishers can market their digital content to potential customers in the book trade and,
especially, in other, corporate and non-trade markets. It conveys why for example corporate customers and brands will be attracted
to the multiple options publishers’ digital content can offer them to further build their brand and serve consumers’ interest
in return. Publishers should be aware of different models to design content deals and of the issues that need to be addressed
while negotiating. The paper provides thorough summaries of all questions that must be solved on both ends, with respect
to resource, pricing, contract, legal and technical issues, etc. and is thus a very helpful source to begin with. 相似文献
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Christopher Platt 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2011,27(3):247-253
Updated from a presentation given at Biblionext.it in Rome in April 2011, this article will highlight The New York Public
Library’s success with e-books and other forms of popular e-content and our efforts to stay one step ahead of the consumer
shift from print reading to e-reading. Consumer e-reading is dominated by Amazon.com in the US, followed by one of the largest
chain bookstores, BarnesandNoble.com. The availability of digital versions of very popular titles, coupled with the explosion
of e-readers, tablets, and smartphones that are priced competitively and fairly easy to use, are helping move a lot of Americans
into the e-book world. Last month, Amazon.com announced they sold more e-books than physical books for the first time ever.
Print books are not going away, but our experience is that it is clear e-books are no longer just an extra format to offer,
they are integral to our future. 相似文献
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Kate Jackson 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1996,12(4):3-23
George Newnes became one of the most influential popular publishers of the age of New Journalism, and was probably Britian’s
first media magnate. He published a vast number and variety of journals in the period from 1881 until his death in 1910, editing
some of these, but leaving an impression upon all of them. Newnes’s periodicals included Tit-Bits (1881), Strand Magazine
(1891), The Million (1892), Westminster Gazette (1893), Country Life (1897), The Ladies Field (1898), Wide World Magazine
(1898), The Captain (1899), and C.B. Fry’s Magazine (1904). Newnes was an innovator, and a publishing entrepreneur. This paper
will focus on the entrepreneurial aspects of Newnes’s publishing ventures and the novel technological and promotional techniques
pioneered by him. The analysis will focus upon such techniques as promotional schenesm advertising, production and illustration,
the employment and promotion of popular authors, editors and illustrators, publicity, market segmentation, and financing.
The concluding section consists of an investigation into some of the rhetoric that has been applied to Newnes’s publishing
career, and the way in which, as publishing entrepreneur and media magnate, Newnes’s successes have been cast within a continuing
debate over popular literature, New Journalism and the commercialization of the popular press in the late-nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries.
Kate Jackson is currently completing a Ph.D. in History on “George Newnes, New Journalism and the Reading Publics, 1881–1910.” 相似文献
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Alan B. Albarran 《Mass Communication and Society》2013,16(3-4):117-129
The field of media economics has mushroomed recently, highlighted by the introduction of the Journal of Media Economics, an expanding literature base, and wider interest among academicians. In this article, I examine the main research paradigms, issues facing the field, and contributions to the larger body of mass communication theory. I also argue that media economics has made at least 4 major contributions to the communication literature. It (a) provides a means to understand media as economic institutions; (b) helps further understanding of continual globalization of media industries; (c) provides a diverse alternative to mainstream mass media; and (d) offers an interdisciplinary focus to contemporary mass communications research. 相似文献
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E-Government initiatives of varying scope and complexity have been implemented at the municipal and other levels of government throughout the world. These projects have been chronicled in both academic and practitioner journals and the proceedings of various E-Government conferences. As a consequence of this growing body of data, it is now possible to look across the experiences of numerous governments to understand if there are common issues that may impact the probability of success of E-Government programs. This paper examines the literature to search for critical planning and implementation issues that have had significant effects upon the success of E-Government initiatives. A conceptual framework is proposed which contributes to the theoretical understanding of E-Government initiative planning and implementation, and may inform practitioner success with new E-Government initiatives. 相似文献