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Repeating the title and bibliographic info here: I The Freelance Editor's Handbook: A Complete Guide to Making Your Business Thrive i , by Suzy Bills in consultation with Aaron Ostler (U of Calif. Something along the lines of "Freelance Experienced Copy Editor and Proofreader Improving Accuracy and Turnaround Times" (eighty-nine characters) or "Freelance Experienced Copy Editor Focusing on Clarity and Concision" (sixty-six characters). Unlike a certain European book reviewer - whose name and nationality here will go unmentioned - who claimed never to have read a book that he (or she) had been assigned to review on the grounds that doing so might jeopardize his (or her) objectivity, let me immediately place my book reviewing credibility on the line by establishing two relevant points, to wit: I am one of those individuals who must read (and at times reread) every word of any book I review before feeling comfortable about putting my thoughts about it on paper and - I will be frank - I wish that I had had the opportunity to read Suzy Bills's I The Freelance Editor's Handbook: A Complete Guide to Making Your Business Thrive i (or some of its many comprehensive insights) years ago. [Extracted from the article]

It is highly fashionable today to project either a very negative or a very positive image of the Middle Ages. The invention of the printing press has hence often been associated with a radical change in literature, religion, politics, and generally the public media. Indeed, we can observe an imminent paradigm shift, ultimately leading, above all, to the Protestant Reformation, which would not have been possible without the printing press. However, technological revolutions do not necessarily transform the Zeitgeist or the history of mentality, the general value systems, and hence the fundamental concepts of literature. Although many medieval romances and heroic epics were soon eclipsed by new types of prose novels, for instance, printed and sold on the early modern book markets, in many other cases the medieval narratives, such as the various versions of the Melusine novel and the jest narratives of Till Eulenspiegel, experienced an astounding afterlife and renewed interests through the printed versions, and this far into the seventeenth century. This article does not intend to diminish the huge impact of the printing press on late medieval culture, but wants to qualify further and discriminate more in detail what really changed and what remained the same within the history of literature. Both the narratives discussed here and their accompanying woodcuts demonstrate a smooth continuation of late medieval topics well into the early modern period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Now in its sixth edition, Beth Luey, Emeritus Professor at Arizona State University, has had ample opportunity to update I Handbook for Academic Authors: How to Navigate the Publishing Process i since it was first published in 1987. However, I would encourage Luey's publishers to pitch the publication principally to emerging authors and, for a future seventh edition, obtain expert peer-review on how to appropriately update content concerning digital publishing and online spaces. Beth Luey: Handbook for Academic Authors: How to Navigate the Publishing Process, Sixth Edition: Cambridge University Press, U.K., 2022, 298 pp., $21.99, Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-00-907335-6. [Extracted from the article]

A Primer of Latin American Cartonera Publishers / Un ABC de las Editoriales Cartoneras en América Latina: Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, Madison, WI, USA, 2009, 182 pp., Colour Images Throughout and Accompanying CD-ROM, US$40.00, Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-934-79510-1 I Akademia Cartonera i is probably the earliest comprehensive publication on I cartonera i books. I spent over a year in 2009-10 making I cartonera i books in Mexico, volunteering briefly with La Cartonera but regularly with its offshoot La Ratona Cartonera; the joyfulness of the I cartoneras i I knew and loved is well represented by I Akademia Cartonera i . [Extracted from the article]

A survey of English language academic publishers in the UK, Europe and North America was undertaken in 2021. The objective was to gather data on the current landscape of academic monograph publishing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences and to identify trends. Respondents were asked about their monograph publishing activities, sales, distribution, and about the future direction of their programmes. The paper offers independent analysis of publisher information that may be helpful in informing the debate among stakeholders as to the future of the publication of long-form research in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The results offer key insights into the growth in output of titles, the level of print sales, the move towards open access, usage of monographs, and their pricing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In doing so, Corinna Zeltsman highlights the political impact exercised by presses, demonstrating how printers engaged in processes of state formation and influenced public opinion. Zeltsman recounts that printing was a privilege granted by royal authorities. Zeltsman states that political factions' growing interest in printing generated new questions regarding the role of printers. [Extracted from the article]

This research uses exploratory, mixed-method case studies to explore the relationship between Australian micro- and small presses (MSPs), their publishing and promotion of writers of difference (WODs), and the relationship to Couldry's (2010) concept of voice. Through structured interviews with two publishing houses and their WODs, I (a) identified MSPs' strategies for publishing and promoting silenced and neglected writers, thus facilitating the expression of voice; and (b) learned how MSPs' authors respond to their publishers' efforts to promote voice, and what publishing strategies they suggest for the industry. This research offers a novel contribution to publishing studies and communication for social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

#RomanceClass is a community which encompasses the authors, readers, actors, and artists who consume, produce, and enact mostly self-published English-language romance fiction in the Philippines. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in 2019, this article explores the key characteristics of #RomanceClass, including the ways in which positions itself in relation to the dominant North American conception of the romance novel and publishing industry, so as to build new understanding of how romance fiction is created and negotiated outside of this hegemonic context. It finds that #RomanceClass operates as an "intimate public" [Berlant in The female complaint: the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture, Duke University Press, Durham, London, 2008], which intrinsically affects the community's texts and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the historical and current day impact that search engine optimization (SEO) tools have in the context of increasing website traffic and, inevitably, online sales. It takes a special focus on the book publishing industry from the perspective of a small-scale publishing company (Company A). The paper accomplishes three things: to develop a working knowledge of SEOs and their impact on website sales and traffic, to highlight the differing usages of SEO in competitors to Company A, and to arrive at a well-informed implementation of SEO strategy for Company A. Our findings conclude that, although there are many, 3 factors are large determinants of a successful SEO campaign. These factors are: title tags, metatag descriptions, and keyword usage. As data and research are conveyed, this paper concludes with how Company A has implemented SEO into their website. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In academia, humanists, social scientists, and those in the various sciences, write books that assume major cultural capital for promotion, tenure, and for dissemination of scholarship. For the beginning academic, doctoral education is the acculturative process by which nascent scholars achieve competence in their respective disciplines. The capstone research experience culminates in the doctoral dissertation in the humanities and social sciences, often, and with substantial revision, the first book in professorial life. This study attempts to frame the production, illustrative bibliographic characteristics, and major publishers of revised dissertations published by university and scholarly trade presses. This study is grounded in data provided by YPB’s Gobi database and further articulated by utilization of the Library of Congress Classification system, and further frames the degree of interdisciplinarity, pricing, geographical concentrations, and other aspects of these books and investigates the similarities and dissimilarities between university press and scholarly trade presses. Illustrative examples display trends and provides suggestions for future analysis and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The need for interoperable rights metadata across all sectors in the publishing ecosystem has become urgent. While much work has been done and is being done, it is often sector-specific. This article reviews the work on rights metadata underway in a variety of sectors-journals, book publishing, libraries, news media, and magazines-in the interest of promoting greater collaboration toward the vision of true interoperability that will enable publishers to manage their intellectual assets most effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The age of information has made university presses more important than ever before. The Internet has placed knowledge at our fingertips, but limited budgets and reluctance to embrace digital technologies have left many university publishers struggling to prove their worth rather than gathering and disseminating that knowledge. To demonstrate how a university publishing house can make it in this changing climate, this report will analyze the industry by using a specific publisher as an example, however this analysis can be applied to any small press. Pace University Press, an extremely small press, but one with the potential to survive and grow, can do so by implementing new practices in marketing, distribution, and digital content that will not only bring it into the twenty-first century, but ensure its continued role in the communication of scholars for years to come. These strategies can be beneficial to any university press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science fiction is popular in Australia. Yet very little science fiction is published in Australia. This essay establishes and examines the paradoxical truth of these two statements. Australian interest in science fiction is shown by reviewing local bookshops, authors, literary events and fan culture. The lack of Australian-published science fiction is shown by examining accounts of local publishing, sampling what is stocked in bookshops and surveying the output of publishing houses. The reasons for this lack are literary snobbishness, the success of the related genre of fantasy, and the importation of foreign-published science fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces a selection of presentations from the 21st International Rights Directors Meeting held at the 2007 Frankfurt Book Fair It offers an overview of a variety of issues related to negotiating digital rights, in particular, and the development of digital publishing, in general. Topics covered include current business models, opportunities for licensing, and methods for negotiating contracts. Publishers are sanguine about the possibilities; though acknowledge that the digital rights business is still in its formative stages. Agents and author advocates are concerned that digital advances may lead to devaluation of writer’s works. Downloadable audiobooks have already created a new market, though e-books have yet to gain traction and are awaiting a device or software application that make them available to a wide audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In China, educational publishing is devoted to publishing mainly textbooks and teaching materials. For a long time, education publishing has dominated others in China’s publishing industry. However, after entering the new century, especially in the last 2 years, there has been the impact of changes in the College-Entrance Examination, the Invitation to Bid for Compilation and Publication of Textbooks, government procurement and Scientific and Technological Advancement for supplementary books. Therefore, publishing for education has been losing its previous major role and dominance. For making a leap forward and breakthrough in educational publication, we must open up a new train of thought for the development of educational publishing, we need three distinct transformations: first, change in publishing mode from extensive to intensive growth. Second, transformation from variety-scale to market-scale expansion. Third, transformation from being just a provider of content to one providing both content and services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the 125th anniversary of the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2003. Core mission of the press; Historical background on the establishment of the press; Efforts done by the press to sustain itself without running deficits during economically strained decades.