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USENET Cookbook
The USENET Cookbook was an experiment in electronic publishing conducted by Brian Reid (computer scientist), Brian Reid in 1985–1987, several years before the World Wide Web, Web. Reid distinguishes between electronic ''printing'' (the production of individual documents) and electronic ''publishing'' (the full process including dissemination). The USENET cookbook was a collaboratively-produced cookbook. Recipes were solicited from contributors worldwide. They were heavily copy editing, edited for style and content and distributed by email weekly; later, they were distributed on the USENET newsgroup ''alt.gourmand''. Recipes were distributed both as plain ASCII text, and markup language, marked up in troff, a widely available system on Unix systems. Much of Reid's effort was devoted to the workflow aspects of publication. There were about 300 contributors and 13000 subscribers to its regular updates, and over 500 recipes collected. The recipes were shown copyrighted by the USE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Publishing
Electronic publishing (also referred to as publishing, digital publishing, or online publishing) includes the digital publication of e-books, digital magazines, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues. It also includes the editing of books, journals, and magazines to be posted on a screen (computer, e-reader, tablet, or smartphone). About Electronic publishing has become common in scientific publishing where it has been argued that peer-reviewed scientific journals are in the process of being replaced by electronic publishing. It is also becoming common to distribute books, magazines, and newspapers to consumers through tablet reading devices, a market that is growing by millions each year, generated by online vendors such as Apple's iTunes bookstore, Amazon's bookstore for Kindle, and books in the Google Play Bookstore. Market research suggested that half of all magazine and newspaper circulation would be via digital delivery by the end of 2015 and that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |