The Rise of Global Publishing and the Fall of the Dream of the Global Book: The Editing of Peter Carey

The article documents the editorial relationship between Peter Carey and his New York based editor for Knopf, Gary Fisketjon, who worked with Carey on his True History of the Kelly Gang. This account provides the basis for a discussion of how globalised publishing, while promising unity—a single text across all territories—has instead introduced a tension into the previously cohesive triad of author, editor, and the single authorized text. As Fisketjon’s experience lays bare, major contemporary texts that are published in multiple editions in different global centers may well proceed through competing or at least parallel editing processes with different presses, different editors, and in different publishing territories. The authorized single edition, even of major literary texts, has been replaced by competing editions. The single edit and editor have been replaced by competing “servant[s] of the writer” (to use Fisketjon’s phrase). Cohesion, while not quite giving way to disunity, gives way to multiplicity and plurality. The experience of the Kelly Gang book is cast against a longer narrative of Carey’s interactions with editors including the University of Queensland Press (UQP) from the 1970s and Faber from the 1980s.     

中国童书出版新变化

文章分析了21世纪初中国童书出版“黄金时代”后的三大新背景,阐述了童书出版在发展模式、出版格局、竞争模式、国际化、图画书出版、儿童阅读6个方面的变化,预测并判断中国童书出版正在经历以转型升级、注重质量为标志的第二个“黄金十年”.     

The Evolving Challenges and Opportunities in Global Publishing

An essay discussing the challenges and opportunities in global publishing and in particular the are addressing many of the big questions publishers are facing today which arise from the marriage of content and technology. Includes examination of three major verticals (STM, Education and Trade publishing) and considers the possibilities offered by cross-industry collaboration to evolve global standards.     

The Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry 2009

More ‘global’, and much more digital than most would expect, the article presents trends and developments of the world’s largest cultural industry as mirrored in its Global Ranking.     

宁精勿杂,宁专勿多 ——地方小型出版社的为书之道

作为一家地方小型出版社,崇文书局在精品出版方面取得了不少成绩.本文认为,这主要取决于三个方面的原因:(1)要从企业存亡兴废的战略高度来重视精品出版;(2)精品出版必须作为"一把手工程"才更能抓出成绩;(3)抓精品出版需要远见、恒心与毅力,同时更需要方法与智慧.     

试论社(刊)标徽的品牌文化力

时下,书业经济蓬勃发展,琳琅满目的报刊、图书蜂拥而至,乱花渐欲迷人眼。出版社、报刊社如何在济济书(刊)林中发出自己的强力声音?怎样才能让读者“瞬间识别”和“即时发现”自己的书刊?我们常常讲“五分钟效应”,即受众如果没有既定的选择目标,一般情况下,他在拿起书本的五分钟内,除了看书名、作者、封面设计、内容简介、目录、封底、定价等要素外,还有一个几乎和书名、作者     

出版经营中不容忽视的问题:多元化战略选择

进入新世纪,在将加入WTO大背景下,中国出版业改革进一步深化,产业化市场化进程加快。出版企业未雨绸缪,都在为新世纪的发展作战略性思考。出版经营中一个不容忽视的问题凸现出来:出版企业如何审慎进行多元化战略选择。 多元化也称多角化。企业多元化是指一个企业同时在二个或更多行业从事经营     

加拿大图书出版政策的新变化

近年来,为了推动加拿大本国图书出版产业的发展,加拿大政府采取了一系列颠覆传统的新举措,不再借助严格限制外商投资的现有政策保护和扶持加拿大本国图书出版产业,而是以一种更为开放和灵活的态度接纳外商投资,放宽现有政策为外商投资加拿大图书出版业设定的高标准要求.本文通过简介加拿大现有图书出版政策及其近期发展动态,比较两者之间的异同,归纳加拿大图书出版政策的新变化,探讨新政策变化的原因及其对加拿大图书出版业产生的影响.     

The Inevitable Shift to Cloud-Based Book Publishing: The Next Step in the Digital Transformation of Book Publishing May be Closer than You Think

Software used by book publishers to manage contracts, royalties, production workflow, sales, and marketing have begun to migrate from relatively closed systems that are internally maintained, to cloud-based platforms on the Web. Business drivers behind this migration include a highly dynamic market for ebooks and other digital products, pressures to cut costs, and a shrinking ROI horizon for technology investments. While questions remain as to how quickly the transition will take, the possibility of cloud-based book publishing promises to change the nature of publishing infrastructure and with it the role of the IT professionals in publishing.     

全球STM出版趋势及其对中国的启示

本文通过对全球范围内STM(Scientific,Technical and Medical)出版业的现状及发展趋势的分析,总结了STM出版业区域性、客户类型及媒介类型的现实情况,在得出世界范围内STM出版业特点的同时也给出了中国STM出版业发展的建议.     

"买卖书号"--出版利润的世纪争夺战

我国现有的560多家图书出版社,每年出版的新书达7万多种,也就是说,每年使用的新书号也有6万多种.国际标准书号作为一种图书的国际编号,仅仅是一种正式出版物的标志,本身并不产生价值.     

我国图书出版市场的外部性及其矫正途径

自20世纪90年代以来,市场这只“看不见的手”在激发我国图书出版业巨大活力的同时,也导致了我国图书出版市场的外部性现象,使得我国有限的图书出版资源的配置效率较低,影响着我国图书出版业的持续健康发展。本文拟从经济学角度对这一现象进行深刻的剖析,揭示其对我国图书出版业发展的负面效应,并提出相应的矫正思路。     

当代图书出版对社会文化心理的负面影响

当代图书出版对当代社会文化心理产生了不可忽视的负面影响,主要表现为：成功、励志类图书的庸俗化出版培植了大众“成功至上”、盲目攀比的社会心理,在客观上使图书出版成为庸俗成功学的始作俑者;生活、健康、养生类图书的泛滥培植了大众扭曲的健康观念开口盲目攀比的生活理念,在客观上成为伪“生命科学”的缔造者;传统文化类图书的过分商业化出版培植了大众追求感官刺激,淡化核心文化、理性精神、哲学意识,以及游戏人生的社会文化心理。     

浙江官书局和浙江图书馆的刻书出版活动考评

浙江官书局作为清末五大书局之一,在出版史上有着不可磨灭的贡献。1909年浙江官书局并入浙江藏书楼成立浙江图书馆,从此浙江图书馆增加了刻书、印书的业务,开启了近代图书馆收藏与出版两大任务并行的历史。     

近代早期(1840-1919)湖南图书发行业研究

近代早期的湖南,是我国思想文化活跃的一个地区,作为思想文化重要的一个方面,图书出版发行也受到很大的影响,有外埠出版机构在湘的分设单位,有湖南官刻成立的发行机构,也有私营出版机构的附属发行力量,且图书发行过程中,禁书行为也相当厉害,但总体来说,此时的图书发行业是兴盛的,对湖南影响也是深远的.     

The Future of Book Publishing: Seven Technology Trends and Three Industry Goals

The Publishing Industry, as many other ones, is facing all the risks and opportunities linked to a digital transformation. This text provides new dimensions for analyzing seven technological trends and their potential impacts on the book publishing industry. The key consideration is that book publishing is totally dependent on Open Web Platform future. In such an agile environment, the publishing industry should focus on three key objectives in order to keep or even extend its influence on the internet world.     

再续出版业“走出去”的话题

通过以往“走出去”的探索,中国出版业在“走出去”的道路上,除了要面对有如文化差异等大的方面的困难和挑战外,需要面对的一此具体问题和挑战也不容忽视。诸如: 其一、钱与“钱”之间何区别。中国出版业要“走出上”,自然少不了要有资金支持,而且很可能要首先想到资金、做资金预算。然而,就资金而言,换算成货币资金,不同国家、地区所用的货币与其他货币换算,其间的     

The Current Reality of National Book Publishing Output and Its Effect on Collection Assessment

Abstract

The WLN Conspectus determines a library's acquisition commitment (growth rate) by considering what percentage of book publishing output it acquired. In 2000, the Bowker Annual changed its source of book publishing from the American Book Publishing Record to Books in Printwith an attendant increase in recorded output. That increase has serious implications for libraries using the WLN formula to determine collecting levels. The recent Art assessment at Jacksonville State University demonstrates how Bowker's change in book title output affects the library's acquisition commitment level, and what adjustments the library made to maintain consistency and continuity.