The Literary Web - Table of contents
Johan Svedjedal, The Literary Web: Literature and Publishing in the Age of Digital Production. A Study in the Sociology of Literature, Acta Bibliothecæ Regiæ Stockholmiensis, LXII (Stockholm: Kungl. Biblioteket, 2000)
Contents
| Acknowledgements | 7 | |
| Introduction | 9 | |
1. | The Book Dethroned | 17 |
| Books and the Media Revolutions | 17 |
| The Gutenberg Capacity | 26 |
| Railroads | 34 |
| Electricity | 38 |
| Radio | 42 |
| The Internet – Change Revisited | 45 |
2. | With No Direction Home | 49 |
| Dimensions of Textuality | 49 |
| From Texts to Hyperworks | 51 |
| Suspense and Curiosity – the Double Helix of Narrative | 63 |
| Temporary Structures in "The Speckled Band" | 78 |
| Temporal Structures and Multisequentiality | 83 |
| Hyperreading and Zap Reading | 88 |
3. | Busy Being Born or Busy Dying? | 93 |
| Beyond the Book | 93 |
| Books and Other Media | 96 |
| Authors and Publishers | 100 |
| Literary Responsitivity and the Unspoken Rules of | 111 |
| Publishing |
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| Functions in Publishing | 114 |
| Functions in Other Professions in the Book Trade | 120 |
| Beyond the Book Chain: a New Model of Functions | 125 |
| in the Book Trade |
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4. | Something Old, Something New | 133 |
| Quality Control | 133 |
| Publishing on the Internet | 135 |
| Print On Demand – Cheaper Printing or Publishing | 141 |
| Somebody You Love? |
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| Marketing Publishing – Traditional Publishers and the | 149 |
| Internet |
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| Internet Bookshops | 152 |
| Networking the Net – Links and Conferences | 162 |
5. | Almqvist on the Internet | 175 |
| Work in Progress | 175 |
| C. J. L. Almqvist's Collected Works | 176 |
| The Digitization of a Book Project | 178 |
| From Editor to Reader | 188 |
| Other Swedish Critical Editions on the Internet | 190 |
| Copyright and Freedom of Information – the Net | 192 |
| Book Disagreement |
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| Conclusion | 197 | |
| Internet Domains | 203 | |
| Bibliography | 205 | |
| List of Tables | 215 | |
| Index | 217 | |