By Samantha Maguire This Week on Fundamentals of Publishing… We kicked this week’s lesson off with reviewing the Week 10 concepts of Legacy vs. New/Social Media and Web Publishing, which was followed by a killer presentation on The Yellow Wallpaper. After that, we had multiple discussions on the effects the Internet has on publishing, reading,…

Quick Recap….  This week’s class began with a quick recap of previous class’s topics- periodical publishing and its types. Later, we engaged in a discussion about questions from the previous week’s blog article. The discussion concluded that despite the rise of digital media, future generations, to some extent, will possess the knowledge of print media.  …

Summary of Class Before we watched the documentary about David Carr (and some other stuff), we discovered anyone could become a “journalist.” All that’s required is a camera, somewhere to upload images and videos, and the ability to type at least at a fourth -grade level.  In today’s age even punctuation is optional!  Isn’t it…

Summary of the week: Will the next generation and onward be familiar with non digital news sources being an option to get their information?

CWP- Week Eight From publishing roles and an amazing presentation on Twilight to the beginning of our venture into examining AI, this week had its good share of questions and thought provoking content. There was also a much appreciated pickle costume, at least by me, and I loved seeing everyone else’s costumes too.  Summary  To…

It was a dark and stormy night… except it was a day, and the rain wasn’t strong enough to fill the cup. The class started with quick announcements and reminders of the field trip — the play Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks — and The Ampersand Review Reading Series on campus. Thanks to everyone who attended;…

By: Jakob Davidson In week 6, we focused on the business of the book publishing industry and the beginnings of book acquisition. Image from https://giphy.com/embed/LZ2WRdQu8udNPSZxbg This week we discussed… “-editing must be involved, directly or indirectly, in the process ofplanning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of books to create exchanges that satisfy…

Week five is finally here! And what a week it was! This week we discussed the ever-present and changing presence of the internet and technology and its impact on the publishing industry!  This Week We Talked About… What Does That Mean For Publishers? The internet has taken the world by storm, especially the publishing industry.…

By: Leah Azeem What Was Covered? As per normal, class started with a quick overview of last week. We reviewed things like trademarks, copyrights and patents. As writers, the copyright aspect is the most relevant one to us! After that, we went back to the printing press and how publishing has developed from 1500 AD…

What We Went Over This week we continued from where we left off last week, discussing the creation of the publishing press, and how it affected Europe, the jobs it provided through the years, and what those jobs were. We spent quite a bit of time on the man, the myth, the legend, Johann Gensfleish…

Week three is a packed lesson about the history of writing materials and the beginning of publishing. Discussing the clay tablet to the codex we also discussed literature’s oldest genre. Week three prep: We read selections from Unwin, Unwin, and Tucker’s “History of Publishing.” Our objective this week was to see what books are made…

This is a sample post to kick things off for the semester. Mostly it’s here to just welcome you to our blog, show you how some of these features work, and give you a bit of an idea of what’s possible for these assignments. For example, if there’s ever a reason — and when ISN’T…