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The Effects of Electronic Publishing on Traditional Publishing
A Research project conducted at Albion College, by Misty Hensley and Lynda
Gronlund funding provided by FURSCA
"With the advent of fast microprocessors, inexpensive high-volume
storage, and the Internet, with its capacity to transport a digital signal
around the world in seconds, information need no longer be linear or packaged
in a physical unit--a prospect that both excites and terrifies publishers."1
Lynda and I began our project with the intention of focusing
only on Electronic Books and their effects on print publishing.
As I began researching, however, I quickly found that much importantinformation
was to be found concerning Electronic Journals and how they have effected
Electronic publishing as well as traditional publishing. Thus, our
respective research quickly split into Electronic Books and Electronic
Journals. This has given us a comprehensive understand of the effect
Electronic Publishing has in fact had on traditional publishing, and the
potential future of publishing and libraries as they struggle with this
new information technology.
Lynda's
findings on Electronic Books as they concern Traditional Publishing (click
on image)
Misty's
research on Electronic Journals as they concern Print Publishing (click
on image)
"The same may be said of the book and the journal:
printing technology has advanced enormously since Gutenberg set his first
Bible...."2
Some exceptional links to Electronic publishing
Please feel free to email Lynda or I with any questions you might have
Lynda Gronlund: lgronlund@albion.edu
Misty Hensley: misty_mchens@softhome.net
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1)Sutton, Brett, ed. Literary
Texts in an Electronic Age. Urbana-Champaign: Graduate School of
LIbrary and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1994. p107
2) Wilson, Thomas D. In the Beginning was the word...: social
and economic factors in scholarly electronic communication.” Aslib
Proceedings 47 Sept (1995) p196