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From Oral to Manuscript Culture: The History of the Book

Guest post by Rachel Fishman ’15 As I discussed Monday, this week is Publishing Week. Wednesday’s post talked about how changes in technology have changed the way that we view the publishing process. Junior Rachel Fishman has written us a guest post giving us the background on manuscript history so that we can better understand current publishing practices and technologies. In RPR’s … Continue Reading

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What Counts as Published?

As I discussed on Monday, this week is Publishing Week. This means that this week’s posts will be about publishing. On Monday we learned that the field of publishing is always changing because of the technologies that we use. While we once relied on communicative methods such as tying rope or writing on papyrus, we now have paper, and technology … Continue Reading

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Shift in technology or the death of the book?

This semester, your CUPID Associates Dannie, Alexa, and I, have organized themed weeks. During these weeks, we will blog posts that correspond with this theme, as well as a guest post or two from other Elon students. This week is Publishing Week! This Winter Term, I took ENG 311: Publishing. For the first two weeks of class, we engaged in … Continue Reading

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