Abstract
According to the UNESCO definition, books are ‘bound non-periodical publications having 49 or more pages’. US Postal service defines them as ‘bound publication having 24 or more pages, at least 22 of which are printed and contain primary reading material, with advertising limited only to book announcements’. Is e-book not a book? And who is a publisher? Is Twitter a book publishing company? »I think it is. It is an open access publisher producing very short books,« says an important publishing professional. The present publishing theory could object. According to the conditions for publishers defined by Michael Bhaskar in The Content Machine (2013), tweets may be amplified, but they are not filtered by anyone else but their author and therefore, the traditional publishing standards are not applied to them. This study reviews these publishing standards – and if we should continue applying them.
Presenters
Andrej BlatnikAssociate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia, Slovenia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future
KEYWORDS
Publishing, Publishing standards, Publishing theory, E-books
Digital Media
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