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The Authoring ProblemThe Authoring Problem is a Publishing Problem

The Authoring Problem: The Authoring Problem is a Publishing Problem [PublishersPublishing (publisher) connect readers and writers. The literary economyEconomies with its diverse currencies—cash, attention, academicAcademic tenure—is not an inescapable natural phenomenon, but is continually reshaped by editors, manufacturers, booksellers, and critics. Central aspects of today’s literary economyEconomies would have been unexpected and even astonishing a few decades back, while customs and practices that we take for granted arose from temporary policies adopted almost a century ago. Fashion, talent, and critical success all enter into the story, but so, too, do details of the accounting practices of booksellers and the real-estate expenses of local pharmacies and neighborhood newsstands. This chapter examines how the literary economyEconomies and the practices of the bookBook trade have shaped interactive media through the course of 35 years and considers what aspects of that economyEconomies are now most liable to transformation.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Authoring ProblemThe Authoring Problem is a Publishing Problem

Part of the Human–Computer Interaction Series Book Series
Editors: Hargood, Charlie; Millard, David E.; Mitchell, Alex; Spierling, Ulrike
Bernstein, Mark
The Authoring Problem — Jan 2, 2023
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-031-05213-2
Pages
73 –90
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-05214-9_6
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Abstract

[PublishersPublishing (publisher) connect readers and writers. The literary economyEconomies with its diverse currencies—cash, attention, academicAcademic tenure—is not an inescapable natural phenomenon, but is continually reshaped by editors, manufacturers, booksellers, and critics. Central aspects of today’s literary economyEconomies would have been unexpected and even astonishing a few decades back, while customs and practices that we take for granted arose from temporary policies adopted almost a century ago. Fashion, talent, and critical success all enter into the story, but so, too, do details of the accounting practices of booksellers and the real-estate expenses of local pharmacies and neighborhood newsstands. This chapter examines how the literary economyEconomies and the practices of the bookBook trade have shaped interactive media through the course of 35 years and considers what aspects of that economyEconomies are now most liable to transformation.]

Published: Jan 2, 2023

Keywords: Publishing; Narrative; Economics

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