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Creator to consumer in a digital age : Australian book production in transition / edited by Bill Cope and Dean Mason.

Title
Creator to consumer in a digital age : Australian book production in transition / edited by Bill Cope and Dean Mason.
Publication
Altona, Vic. : Common Ground Pub., 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Mason, Dean
  • Cope, Bill
  • Cope, Bill, 1957-
  • Mason, Dean.
Description
292 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
Provides a snapshot of the Australian book production industry at the beginning of the new millennium. The work makes a three-fold case for the future of the book within a reinvigorated Australian book production industry: a business case, a technological case, and a cultural case.
Alternative Title
  • C-2-C : creator to consumer in a digital age : book production in transition
  • Creator to consumer in a digital age : book production in transition
  • Australian book production in transition
Subject
  • Publishers and publishing > Australia
  • Electronic publishing > Australia
  • CD-ROM publishing > Australia
  • Desktop publishing > Australia
  • Printing > Australia
  • Printers > Australia
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
System Details (note)
  • System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: 1. The future of the book / Bill Cope -- The business case: 2. Australian book production in transition / Dean Mason & Bill Cope ; 3. Digital publishing / Paul Mercieca ; 4. Emerging business models / Dean Mason -- The technology case: 5. Crating a viable e-text market / Craig Bellamy [and others] ; 6. Print technology in transition / Bill Cope & Robert Black ; 7. Online possibilities for books / Bill Cope and Stavroula Tsembas -- The cultural case: 8. The book now / Karen Geiselhart ; 9. Does copyright have a digital future? / T.J. Laidler ; 10. Multilingual applications and possibilities with digital technology / Michael Singh ; 11. New Knowledge -- new markets / Helen Smith -- Conclusion: 12. New ways with words / Bill Cope.
ISBN
  • 1863350489 (PDF)
  • 1863350470 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 48129319
  • SCSB-12643781
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library