Book

Book

• A piece of electronic equipment that can send and receive spoken messages or signals

• A short-written work

• A set of printed sheets of paper that are held together inside a cover

• An youngest mass medium

What were the major developments in the modernization of the printing press?

• The printing press was invented in the 20th century.

• The printing press led to a decline in literacy rates due to overproduction of books.

• The printing press was mainly used for printing newspapers and magazines.

• The printing press made distributing books much easier and faster because before that the books had to be copied by hand.

Why were the early colonists not a book-reading population?

• Books were considered to be a symbol of wealth.

  1) Fight for survival

  2) Had very limited time

  3) Reading books was considered a luxury.

• The Act that required the colonists to pay a tax on any printed material. Said these taxes violated their rights as British Citizens.

• After the Revolutionary War, printing became even more central to politic, intellectual, and cultural life in major cities like Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. To survive financially, printers also operated as booksellers, book publishers, and sometimes as postmasters who sold stationery and even groceries.

• England: Allen Lane

  USA: Robert deGraff

Unsold copies of books returned to the publisher by bookstores to be sold at great discount.

• Integers

• Remainers

• Trade books

• Executory interests

e-publishing

• The most visible book industry segment, featuring hardbound and paper back books aimed at general readers and sold at bookstores and other retail outlets

• A technology that enabled books to be printed from photographic plates rather than metal casts, reducing the cost of color and illustrations and eventually permitting computers to perform typesetting

• Paperback books printed on cheap paper made from wood pulp another name for dime novels

• Internet-based publishing houses that design and distribute books for comparatively low prices for authors who want to self-publish a title

Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution.

• Trade books

• Cottage industry

• Free enterprise

• Industrial revolution

Aliteracy

• A recording in which someone rads a printed book or a version of it

• People possess the ability to read but are unwilling to do so

• Inexpensive paperback novels of the nineteenth century

• Unsold copies of books returned to the publisher by bookstores to be sold at great discount

What are e-books, e-readers, e-publishing, and audiobooks?

• The Internet form of the printed material

• Handwritten manuscript

• Physical copies of traditional books

• Audio recording of live readings

Publishing method whereby publishers store books digitally for instant printing, binding, and delivery once ordered.

• E-books

• Print on demand (POD)

• E-publishing

• E-reader

POD

• They store works digitally, once ordered, a book can be instantly printed.

• A novel written as a series of documents.

• Email and mobile phones are being utilized for sending and reading of serialized novels.

• A term used to describe the publishing industry before conglomeration