Re-Inventing the Book Challenges from the Past for the Publishing Industry - Banou, Christina (2016)
Introduction: the continuing revolution of Gutenberg 1 1.1 The continuing revolution of Gutenberg: the publishing industry at a turning point 1 1.2 New worlds for old strategies, new words for old values 5 1.3 Toward a methodological and theoretical framework for publishing 10 1.4 The structure of the book 13 References 16 2 Reimagining the book: aesthetics in publishing 19 2.1 Setting the scene: from illustration to new multimedia technologies. Approaches and trends 19 2.2 The artistic identity of the book. - Publishers, readers and the democratization of taste 24 2.3 The aesthetics publishing chain-circle and its explanations 33 2.4 Reconstructing the book: the value of the paratext 42 2.5 Reader participation and personalized copies: new aesthetic and business models 57 2.6 Reconsidering the boundaries of the book: convergence 62 2.7 Recalling Renaissance woodcuts: from painted prints of Renaissance to colouring books of the digital era 65 2.8 Why aesthetics in publishing is still important. The aesthetic capital 67 References 70 3 Reengaging readers, rediscovering strategies 75 3.1 Reader engagement and the emergence of publishing strategies 75 3.2 Lessons from the past: reader participation in the publishing chain. - Case studies from Renaissance and the Baroque 78 3.3 Readersourcing 85 3.4 Rediscovering preorders 90 3.5 From patronage to crowdfunding 94 viii Contents 3.6 Short forms, serialization. - Re-considering values 133 5.2 Keep reinventing: challenges from the past for the publishing industry 139 5.3 A comment as epilogue. Time and the book (or reinventing ourselves) 145 References 146 Timeline 147 Index 149