Copyright

Janis Jefferies

Published On

2019-03-12

Page Range

pp. 405-414

Language

  • English

Print Length

9 pages

1. Publishing Industry

  • Janis Jefferies (author)
Chapter of: Whose Book Is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (pp. 405–414)

Jeffries’ article focuses on the increasing emphasis in the publishing sphere put upon digitisation and sustainability, and the transformation of books to ereaders, from paper to screen. She looks at this firstly from the perspective of the author, and then of the reader, focussing on the pressure that giants like Amazon are putting on publishers and published authors, with its ‘print on demand facilities’. She moves on to discuss the fate of books in this electronic age, pointing out that many bookshops have still managed to flourish during this more competitive era. The article finishes by touching on innovative initiatives within the sphere, where text meets technology, such as Stephen Fry’s YourFry — a collaborative global project to reinterpret the words and narrative of Stephen’s new memoir, More Fool Me.

Contributors

Janis Jefferies

(author)
Professor Emerita of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths University of London

Janis Jefferies is professor emerita of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She has edited numerous books and chapter contributions on textiles, technology, performance and practice research, most recently TECHSTYLE Series 2.0: Ariadne's Thread (2017) and A Reader TEXTYLE 2.0 FabPublic, Talking about Textiles, Community and Public Space both for CHAT/MILL6 Foundation. Hong Kong (2018). The Enchantment of Textiles research project with Professor Barbara Layne, Concordia University documents twenty years of their collaborative, textile and technology based research. The exhibition will be shown at the ASM Expression Gallery. Art Science Museum, Singapore in 2019. She is contributing 'Art, Craft & Design technologies' to Charlie Gere and Francesca Franco's three-volume Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art, to be published in 2022.