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"Networked Pre-publication Models: Opportunities, Possibilities, and Outstanding Questions in the `University without Walls'," Journal of Religious and Theological Information 2:1 (Fall, 1994) 95-114. Originally presented to the Special Topics Forum "Networked Electronic Publishing: Present Models and Future Opportunities for the Academy" as "Networked Pre-publication Models: Opportunities and Possibilities", American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, November, 1992.
What happens to a book before it is published? Much was happening, in the past, as in evident from the above citation.
But now with the emergence of the blogosphere, a book in its formation stage is being read by 1000 editors, not all of them are professional. A researcher, at Institute for the Future of the Book, looks deep into these prospects!!!
It is, in short, still all-ado-about a book in its embryonic (or pre-production) Stage? Will there be no need of ghost editors? Will the Book Acquisition Department in publishing houses get shrinked? And more questions may now pop up.
I just read the following news story (Thanks to Joseph Romain):
Scholars turn monographs into digital conversations, By JEFFREY R. YOUNG, The Chronicle of Higher Education (From the issue dated July 28, 2006)
While most scholarly books are reviewed by a few carefully chosen experts before publication, McKenzie Wark's latest monograph is getting line-by-line critiques from hundreds of strangers in cyberspace, many of whom know absolutely nothing about his academic field. continue reading
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A comment on the citation from Journal of Religious and Theological Information
I look forward to getting feedback from you and others who might have comments. (Fascinating that a presentation in 1992 might elicit comment 14 years later!!)
"L. G. Bloomquist (SPU)" gbloomquist@ustpaul.ca
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