Justin Trudeau

Four factors (digitisation, economisation, medialisation and the increased use of quantitative, bibliometric indicators) have been identified, whose effects are rarely taken into account in their combined interactions.

Without taking into account the developments that strengthen trust and which are especially connected to digitisation, however, this image remains incomplete and one-sided.

One structural problem seems at first glance to have been caused primarily by the economisation of the publishing landscape.

Because of the described conjunction between the legitimating mandate of publicity and the attention management in the context of the competition for funds, science becomes ‘medialised’.

The number of employed science journalists is decreasing while that of professional communicators specialised in persuasive communication (PR) goes up.

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However, I am also aware that part of the privacy will be sacrificed in exchange for the benefits.

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What do the parents want their children to learn from books?

Will the trend be similar within the Chinese community?

I want to find out how many Chinese parents are there in Canada and how many of them have child(ren) 3-10 years old

How many Chinese immigrants have young children at home in Canada? What are their book-purchasing habits? Will they buy books in English or Chinese for their kids? Will they order books online and have the books shipped directly from China?

Using Amazon’s data, we could find out more about what kind of metadata works and how best to optimize our titles for discoverability in a way that takes advantage of Amazon’s algorithms.

As a publisher, I could use data to identify historical trends of what has traditionally succeeded in terms of themes, format, and more.

how people read online

Speaking on a more specific level, having all the user data for Facebook would enable me to optimize my marketing by helping me learn more about specific reader demographic profiles and how to optimize my audience information when generating ads for specific books and branded contents.

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but I would work to interpret the data and let it inform my decisions in a way that is collaborative.

Editors can use these tools to streamline the process they need to take with the manuscript and combine it with their gut instincts and human experience to allow a book to reach its full potential.

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If the majority of readers are calling it quits after chapter three then some changes need to be made in the writing.

(who is far less trained to recognize real talent and art, the je ne sais quoi of good writing than my editors and their gut)

Plus, only so many people read so many books a year which means the amount of blockbusters is finite. If I only wanted to be producing blockbusters then I’d be putting out two or three books a year, and somehow having a drastically reduced field of competition. No, I don’t need to sell a million copies of my author’s latest work

owever, if publishers don’t depend on readership data, then how can they strive for blockbuster hits?

I’m interested in exploring this flip in the question, that what if readership data is restricted from publishers? How would it impact the productivity of the publisher, or alternate the decision-making process of what gets published?

While there is data that can predict the next blockbuster hits, as shared from Stephen Phillips’ “Can Big Data Find the Next Blockbuster Hit“, I believe that the most useful information a publisher can obtain is from the author and his/her readership credentials to prove that the author is worthy of being published. It’s sad that the amount of likes or follower count is how we qualify how worthy an author’s work is to be published, but I believe this is what the future of publishing is moving towards. Many publishers look at an author’s previous publishing experiences, or if an author has previous entertainment success to use as a security blanket, as a means to promise success and high profit from a project. For example, it’s been very popular to look at the social media account information from prospective poets, as most “Instapoets” are now published based off of viral posts from their poetry. I think this is how most celebrities become authors too. It’s so risky for publishers to publish works, as most ideas don’t really make money. I understand that not most publishers publish just for monetary value, but for the large-house publishing companies, I don’t see it any other way. It’s as if this data acts as the closest publishers can bet to a promised return on a project. 

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but since I have access to all the data in the world, I can capitalize on this opportunity.

That way, fans of the TV show would buy books produced by my publishing house

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trends in the market and ride those waves.

I would consequently also know what time and days of the week they are in the mood to shop/attend events.

I don’t think there is any way to not

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they’re doing and who they’re giving it to

Amazon has developed camera technology which they use in their Amazon Go store that can tell the difference between each product in the store and charge the customer accordingly.

You only need one app, one platform, one secure place. You can communicate with your friends and family, make purchases, share images, whatever you like, and it’s all private (right?).

Maybe sharing your information with one corporation would be better?

We’ve sold our souls (private data) to the Devil (Facebook, Google, Amazon) for eternal euphoria (funny cat videos)

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which makes me wonder…Is this because of the book?

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Books are now designed using stock photos, illustration software, editing software, and downloaded fonts.

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An ICML file only concerns itself with what InDesign calls a Story—any piece of continuous text. When text from one page or text box overflows into another, it is a continuation of the same Story. Since the information about each front-list title is independent from the others, it would have made sense for our catalogue to have each as a separate Story. However, an ICML document can only contain one Story, so it was much simpler to run all the titles together than to create a multitude of ICML files, which would have needed to be individually placed.

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choosing to publish only women’s mystery novels in paperback in order to maximize sales leaves out every reader and author outside of these categories

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the statistic I am focusing on is the algorithm’s ability to correctly determine the success of a book given its writing pattern.

Beyond looking at historical placement and reception of texts to help decide acquisitions, algorithm run platforms can also improve the publishing process via statistical stylometry. Statistical stylometry is the “statistical analysis of variations in literary style between one writer or genre” (Stony Brook) that can be used to determine commercial and critical success. In 2013, Professor Yejin Choi from Stony Brook University unveiled a study in which an algorithm was used to analyze 800 books from Project Gutenberg, a platform which “houses 42,000 books that are available for free download” (Stony Brook). The study was one of the first to try and provide quantitative insights into the relationship between book success and writing style. It looked at “1,000 sentences from the beginning of each book […] [and] performed systematic analyses based on lexical and syntactic features” (Stony Brook), before comparing those statistics to the number of downloads. The study itself uncovered numerous interesting trends and correlations such as how less successful books tend to be “characterized by a higher percentage of verbs, adverbs, and foreign words” (Stony Brook), while successful books make more frequent use of discourse connectives.

This in turn can also give publishers a better sense of what users, demographics, and groups a certain book attracts, ultimately allowing for “more precision” (Conner) in audience targeting. The same can also be said for topic research as well, with algorithmic investigations working to discover popular or over saturated genres and comparable titles. Access to such databases would help ensure that a potential book was “genuinely unique, […] [and] potentially patentable” (Conner), consequently relieving some copyright and monetary risks. Authors and publishers alike would thus be able to see how certain styles or genres of books were received, giving them the opportunity to tailor their own products and marketing for success.

and enact hybrid models of automation.

being hailed as the next wave of betterment

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which has recently begun to pick up steam

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perhaps to help build a reader’s profile avatar, to perfect recommendation algorithms

Examples of successful gamification can be seen in Scholastic’s 39 Clues,

motivation they need to engage with the book in a positive way

fulfillment of any of these drivers can be achieved through alternate forms of media

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This is misguided.

This essay argues that gamification in publishing is a beneficial development and should be sustained in any of its present forms or potential uses. Gamification, as will be defined, can influence positive reading behaviour through the reader’s play and interaction with the content by means of intrinsic and/or extrinsic motivators. Presently, companies like Scholastic, Kobo, and the Huffington Post have successfully integrated gamification into their publishing (or platform) models, but many publishers remain skeptical of its intrinsic, long-term value to the reader’s experience. It should be noted, however, that “gamification” strategies—although not traditionally defined as such—have been a long-standing part of print editorial, production, distribution, and marketing plans even before the inception of digital reading. Furthermore, reader psychology naturally allows for the acceptance of a gamified environment through the reader’s inherent motivation to complete, share, and collect content. As such, a publisher or content provider’s adoption of gamification in digital production, while not only benefitting the industry as a whole, should be expanded beyond the elementary use of points, badges, and leaderboards (PBL), and adopted cross-genre.

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they can now reach multiple audiences through their metadata

wouldn’t today’s discoverability actually be better than the old days of paper books in a 4-storey bookstore

Compared to traditional print book marketing strategies, such as jacket copy, print advertising, and co-op bookstore placement, discoverability in the digital landscape is better than ever before and presents an enormous opportunity for publishers in terms of awareness and sales.

Topic modeling and its application to BISAC code selection is an obvious fix to a system that so clearly is not function.

Replace “theme” with “subject heading” and interpret zooming in as selecting a more specific BISAC code within a subject heading, and topic modeling and the selection of a BISAC are mirrored processe

These patterns can include the recurrent use of certain words or phrases, or the repeated appearance of relationships (in terms of grammar, order, and position) between words or phrases, and are measured or quantified so as to provide the statistical likelihood that a text pertains to a specific theme or subject matte

The question then, is how do we fix this broken system and implement a consistent process for selecting BISAC codes?

There should be consistency across formats. In other words, hardcover, paperback, mass market, large print, audio books, and e-books should all have the same BISAC subjects.

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and no categorization tools or aids are supplied.

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Unfortunately, this assumption is untrue.

Chapters-Indigo, and would confirm the store as being laid out in sections based on the genre of the books found within.

From the first book we read, or, more often, have read to us, we begin to form preferences. We find authors we like, writing styles or reading levels that we enjoy consuming; plotlines that compel us to keep reading, and characters we connect with, but underlying all of these nuanced preferences is one very specific penchant: genre.

So while the Times may lose certain reader insights, Facebook gains a whole world of new insight that the company would not have previously been privy to—information like what stories readers of the Times are more likely to read through completion, what authors are read the most, and what stories are read most in certain parts of the world

Is the coming contest between platforms and publishing companies an existential threat to journalism?

do they come to these owned channels with their wallets open?

But how does the New York Times brand benefit from this?

This should be no surprise as this company is the same that only permits Instagram users to have one functioning hyperlink on their profile and none in their posts.

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Fundamentally, it seems unlikely that it’s in the best interest of digital publishers to cede power to a third-party company with its own shareholders to answer to, and ultimately, this partnership is a wedge that could sever the Time’s social audience from itself by allowing Facebook to corral its audience while setting Facebook on the road to becoming a publisher themselves.

In the trail of navel-gazing and soul-searching that’s streaking like condensation on the window through which Facebook and the New York Times are about to shake hands, the debate about the deal that would see the media organization publish content directly to Facebook has boiled down to duel between control and independence versus access to audience.

In conclusion, self-publishers have approached the web as a platform or context of endless opportunity, whereas traditional publishers have perceived it as a threat to their business models and in turn, their very purpose of publishing. Essentially, a new form of publishing is already set as the stage where self-publishers are able to introduce new standards of creating content and curating content, marketing and distributing it with user-friendly, accessible and even free tools. The smart traditional publishers, and even booksellers, as we have seen have used this as an inspiration to expand their own models, and collaborate with successful self-publishers, even emerging bloggers and annotators by offering unbundled professional services and content strategies, as well as editing and formatting tools to publish their own books. The new stage of the “techno-publishing”, a term I coined myself, is a place to invest coding skills, multiplatform marketing and content disaggregation for the right audience at the right time, is where the business of publishing is right now. What is left, is for us to decide which part we’ll play in it as future publishers.

With that said, the self-published author owns the right to the e-book.

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The future of the book: “Almost as constant as the appeal of the book has been the worry that appeal is about to come to an end. The rise of digital technology—and especially Amazon, underlined those fears” (The Economist, From Papyrus to Pixels)[8].

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Traditional publishers, who already face competition from retail giants such as Amazon, now have to consider their competitive edge against a surprising opponent – the consumer, and in this respect, the reader. We can see that through social computing, as described by Alan Liu as an evolutionary form of reading where the reader assumes the role of annotator, and thereby contribute to the work of the original author.

According to Bowker’s statistics “more than three million new titles were published in 2010. Of these, over 2.7 million were non-traditionally published books, including print-on-demand and self-published titles.[

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Self-publishing is setting the stage[1] for the future of publishing with the prevalence of “do-it-yourself” tools and applications, almost diminishing the value of the traditional publisher as gatekeeper.

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How would its online subscribers react upon finding that the story that they have paid good money to read is being freely shared on Facebook?

legacy publishers still exist as whole entities even as their reliance on social media increase

their cultural capital is inextricably tied up with their brand appeal

In fact, as Peretti points out, organic social shares of their content qualify as earned media as opposed to viral hits, which can be easily obtained by buying cheap traffic.

silent crusade against click-baiters

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How does it expect to transplant its content into Facebook without risking its robust subscription model?

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Facebook but only if it’s on its own terms;

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case studies of their lucrative partnerships.

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80% leap in referral traffic

Sounds plausible enough but a closer look at Facebook’s recent activities shows the move is part of a bigger plan

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this paper aims particularly at publishers starting out or looking to adapt to today’s changing technologies and who plan to offer enough of a catalogue to make these suggestions beneficial to their process

Whoever came up with the saying “Jack of all trades, master of none” never saw hybrid publishing coming

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is this truly an exercise of freedom or, rather, a limitation on it?

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These publishers, in fact, are putting into the service only their backlist titles, leaving the new, “most attractive commercial titles” out of the offer

nd I’m now venturing into the realm of speculation

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