LIS448

037874

This class examines contemporary book publishing in its current traditional and non-traditional forms, both print and electronic. In order to understand the status mainstream publishing often enjoys today, the course quickly reviews the rise of publishing in the 20th century. Changes, beginning in the 1980's, have resulted in the current trade book publishing situation, and in the last decade, traditional publishers have increasingly published eBooks. We will also study the rise of non-traditional publishing alternatives, both print and electronic, and the attempts of alternative publishers to disrupt traditional book selling patterns. We will end with trends that might foreshadow changes in the book environment in the first half of the 21st century.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

LIS548