Technology and Evolving Forms of Publishing

Course pages at

http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/wikis/PUB802

PUB802 asks the fundamental question: Will the publishing industry as we know it survive the digital revolution?

There are two kinds of answer to this question. The affirmative one leads to further questions about how publishers will adapt to a digital world; how will book and magazine publishing reorient, evolve, and/or hold ground in the face of a dominantly digital environment. The negative answer leads to further questions about what publishing might mean in the decades to come, who will be doing it, and what will be the critical dynamics involved.

This course strategically hedges bets on this question, on the assumption that clear thinking on both sides will be required for successful publishing endeavours in the near future.