Electronic Publishing
Introduction
• Electronic Publishing Advantages
and Disadvantages
• Copyright Issues
• Project Gutenberg and On-Line Books
• Electronic Journals, Magazines,
and Newspapers
• Miscellaneous Publishing Issues
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Electronic Publishing
Electronic Publishing
Advantages and Disadvantages
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
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Electronic Publishing
Advantages
Electronic Publishing
Advantages and Disadvantages
• Convenient
• Dynamic
• Easy
• Fast
• Inexpensive
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Electronic Publishing
Disadvantages
Electronic Publishing
Advantages and Disadvantages
• Computer literacy
• Credibility
• Viewing difficulty
• Advertising increases
• Ownership
• Document unavailability
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Electronic Publishing
Copyright Issues
• Definition
• Credit Issues
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Electronic Publishing
Definition
Copyright Issues
• Copyright: Set of rights extended to individual
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who has produced creative work
Three requirements in United States
• Must be original
• “Tangible” form
• More than just an idea
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Electronic Publishing
Definition
Copyright Issues
• Copyright notice in United States
• Copyright symbol 
• Year first published
• Name of owner
• “All rights reserved”
• Public domain
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Electronic Publishing
Credit Issues
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Copyright Issues
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Copyright protection includes electronically
publications
Digital Future Coalition and Electronic Frontier
Foundation
Information on Web freely available
Legal constraints and legislation with stiffer penalties
• Creative Incentive Coalition
• Copyright Clearance Center
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Electronic Publishing
Credit Issues
Copyright Issues
Developing technology to ensure copyright
protection
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Digital rights management systems
Inter Trust Technologies
DigiBox containers Information on Web freely available
• IBM
Cryptolope container
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Electronic Publishing
Project Gutenberg and On-Line Books
• Project Gutenberg
• Other On-Line Books
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Electronic Publishing
Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg and On-Line Books
1971
Michael Hart
Goal:
Make information, books and other materials available
to general public in a form that is easy to read, use, quote, and
search.
Three groups of e-texts:
• Heavy literature: works of Shakespeare and the Bible
• Light literature: books such as Alice in Wonderland
• References: dictionaries, almanacs, encyclopedias.
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Electronic Publishing
Other On-Line Books
Project Gutenberg and On-Line Books
• Alex
• On-line Book Initiative
• Project Bartleby
• World Wide Web Virtual Library
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Electronic Publishing
Electronic Journals, Magazines,
and Newspapers
• E-zines
• Journals
• Magazines and Newspapers
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Electronic Publishing
E-zines
Electronic Journals, Magazines,
and Newspapers
• Zine: self-published works for all kinds of
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interests.
Fanzine: “fan magazine” on a particular topic.
Non-profit
Ellen and Ray’s choices:
• “Dazzlers Digital Domicile”
(www.redbay.com/dazzler)
• “Moondance” (www.moondance.org)
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Electronic Publishing
Journals
Electronic Journals, Magazines,
and Newspapers
• Ellen and Ray’s choices:
• “The Journal of Electronic Publishing”
(www.press.umich.edu/jep)
• “ACM’s Journal of Experimental Algorithmics”
(www.jea.acm.org)
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Electronic Publishing
Magazines
and Newspapers
Electronic Journals, Magazines,
and Newspapers
• On-line subscription
• Ellen and Ray’s choices:
• “Ecola Newsstand” (www.ecola.com)
• “The Electronic Newsstand” (www.enews.com)
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Electronic Publishing
Miscellaneous Publishing Issues
• Plagiarism:
The act of using someone else’s work
and calling it your own.
• Electronic Publishing Do’s and Don’ts
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Electronic Publishing
Electronic Publishing
Do’s and Don’ts
Miscellaneous Publishing Issues
• Do:
• Ensure quality of material
• Make clear when stating opinion
• Use copyright notice
• Don’t:
• Use someone else’s material without permission
• Assume an electronic document is not copyrighted
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