Understanding the World of Publishing
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While many courses cover the creative process extensively, ‘Understanding the World of Publishing’ offers a detailed insight into the inner workings of a publishing house, as well as crucial information on the role of a literary agent, and how you can get one. Over three days, this course will:
- give you inside information on how a publishing house functions, and the team that will be working on your book;
- detail the key steps as your novel becomes a book and finally hits the shelves, and how you will be involved in that process;
- cover some of the main terminology used within publishing;
- look at how a publisher markets your book – and how you will be expected to market your book;
- allow participants to consider how to present themselves both online and at public events; and
- offer the opportunity to research an agent for their work, and how you should submit to them.
Featuring a host of useful information, discussion points and practical exercises, this course will encourage writers to think beyond the end of their project and consider what they can expect from both publisher and agent as a debut novelist.
Tutor Alex Davis will also be joined by a special guest speaker from the world of publishing, giving participants the chance to hear direct from a highly experienced individual and ask any questions they may have. Tickets £155 from either 01158482813 or email creativeshortcourses@ntu.ac.uk
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From the HISTORY OF Publishing
30,000 B.C. – Cave walls become the first medium when ancient humans draw two rhinoceroses and one bison in Chauvet Cave in France.
4000 B.C. – Egyptians first use hieroglyphs inscribed on pottery jars and ivory plaques that would then be deposited in tombs.
3300 B.C. – Cuneiform, a combination of writing systems, sprouts in the Mesopotamia region. The system uses pictographs, and documents are written on a clay tablet with a stylus.
105 A.D. – The Chinese invent paper.
868 – The Diamond Sutra, a scroll of Buddhist text created through woodblock printing, is created. It is found in 1900 in China, and it’s one of the earliest books found with an exact date.
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1456 – Gutenberg prints the Bible in Germany. It was the first book produced on a printing press anywhere in the world.
1690 – Publick Occurrences, the first English-American newspaper, debuts.
1731 – The first general-interest magazine, The Gentlemen’s Magazine, is printed in London. The magazine ended in 1907.
1800s – The “penny press” arrives in the U.S. Newspapers were available for just a penny, allowing the masses to consume this information for the first time instead of just the elites.
1899-1967 – Magazines explode, with several of today’s household names making their first appearances. National Geographic, Reader’s Digest, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Seventeen, Playboy and Rolling Stone all release their first issues during this time period.
From the HISTORY OF Photography
In 1839, two remarkable processes that would revolutionize our perceptions of reality were announced separately in London and Paris; both represented responses to the challenge of permanently capturing the fleeting images reflected into the camera obscura. The two systems involved the application of long-recognized optical and chemical principles, but aside from this they were only superficially related. The outcome of one process was a unique, unduplicatable, laterally reversed monochrome picture on a metal plate that was called a daguerreotype after one of its inventors, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. The other system produced an image on paper that was also monochromatic and tonally as well as laterally reversed—a negative. When placed in contact with another chemically treated surface and exposed to sunlight, the negative image was transferred in reverse, resulting in a picture with normal spatial and tonal values. The result of this procedure was called photogenic drawing and evolved into the calotype, or Talbotype, named after its inventor, William Henry Fox Talbot. Talbot's negative-positive process initially was less popular than Daguerre's unique picture on metal, but it was Talbot's system that provided the basis for all substantive developments in photography.
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From the HISTORY OF radio
In some countries it was believed that the first successful information exchange system that used radio waves (radiotelegraphy) was created by Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi’s first radio transmissions, in 1896, were coded signals that were transmitted only about a mile (1,6 km) far. In 1898 Marconi flashed the results of the Kingstown Regatta to the offices of a Dublin newspaper, thus making a sports event the first “public” broadcast.
Marconi was not the first to invent the radio, however. Four years before Marconi started experimenting with wireless telegraph, Nikola Tesla invented the theoretical model for radio. In Russia it is Alexander Popov who is believed to be the inventor of the radio. In 1895 he built a sensitive and reliable radio set suitable for radio communication. Popov presented his device at the meeting of the Russian Physicochemical Society in St. Petersburg on May 7, 1895. It was in fact the first radio in the world.
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