Chapter III: Books
Terms
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copy deck
- e-books
- books that exist as digital files
- rag content
- proportion of cotton or linen fiber in high-quality paper
- trade books
- fiction and nonfiction books sold to the general public
- pulp novels
- paperback books printed on cheap paper made from wood pulp; another name for dime novels
- parchment
- an early form of paper made from animal skins
- papyrus
- a type of reed used to make an early form of paper
- technological determinism
- theory that states that the introduction of new technology changes society, sometimes in unexpected ways
- trade paperback
- a quality paperback book with a larger trim size than the standard mass-market paperback
- dime novels
- inexpensive fiction, popular in the 1860s, that sold for 10 cents; also called pulp novels
- on spec
- on speculation; in the publishing industry, finishing a work without a contract guaranteeing that it will be bought
- oral culture
- a culture in which information is transmitted more by speech than writing
- audiobooks
- books recorded on tape or some other medium
- print culture
- before teaching people to think for themselves threatened the traditional authority of kings and religious leaders
- codex
- a book written on parchment pages that were cut and bound on one side - first to resemble today's familiar form
- hypertext fiction
- interactive stories that allow the reader to change the plot as the narrative is read
- public domain
- the realm embracing works on which the copyright has expired
- chapbook
- inexpensive early form of paperback containing mostly stories to be read for pleasure