Rowland Lorimer

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Policy, Technology, and the Creative Economy of Book Publishing in Canada

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Produktbeschreibung

Traces the policies and effort that established the modern Canadian book publishing industry over the past forty years, ending with a discussion of the likely technological trajectories for the industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ECW Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781770410763
• ISBN-10: 1770410767
• Artikelnr.: 35343563

Autorenporträt

Rowland Lorimer is Director of the Master of Publishing program and the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University. For the last 10 years, his research has had a dual focus: the Canadian publishing industry and the mass media. Lorimer has carried out more than 20 commissioned studies on book, magazine, and scholarly journal publishing in Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface And Acknowledgements / ix
Introduction: Policy, Technology, and the Creative Economy of Book
Publishing in Canada
1. Of Books, Publishing, and Social Context
2. Prelude to Modernity: Some Historical Notes on Canadian Book Publishing
and Cultural Development
3. Establishing a Book Publishing Industry: From The 1960s to the 1990s
4. Reconceiving Book Publishing from the Middle 1990s Forward
5. The Current State of Canada’s Book Industry, Government Policies, and
Cultural Partnerships
6. Operational and Market Realities in Canadian Book Publishing
7. Trajectories of Technology-Incubated Massive Change
8. Changing Realities and the Future of Canadian Book Publishing
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index