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Internet publishing has rapidly grown in the last decade, to the point where scholarly journals, books, newspapers, and magazines all have multiple identities in print and on the screen. Nowhere is this more recognized in the general acceptance of digital versions of newspapers by the public at large (Nguyen 2003) and scholarly journals in academia. In recognition of these developments, the editors of Libri have agreed to start, with this issue, a thread of papers discussing current issues in Internet publishing. This thread will examine Internet publishing from a variety of perspectives, including those of traditional and Web publishers, contributors (in digitalese, content creators), and readers (users). Papers in this series will take a decidedly practical approach as well as philosophical, examining in part what progress we have or haven't made in ten years and the implications for the future of our successes and failures in utilizing this new medium. In some ways, our use of the Internet like a printing press has been slow. I was reminded of this in a re-reading of Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin's The Coming of the Book. Febvre and Martin (1999) describe the quick spread

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Author

Edward J. Valauskas

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2003

Field

Social Sciences