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Printing
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Printing is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest examples include Cylinder seals and other such as the Cyrus Cylinder. The earliest known form of printing came from China dating to before 220 A. D. Later developments in printing include the type, first developed by Bi Sheng in China around 1040 AD. Johannes Gutenberg introduced mechanical movable type printing to Europe in the 15th century, modern large-scale printing is typically done using a printing press, while small-scale printing is done free-form with a digital printer. Though paper is the most common material, it is frequently done on metals, plastics, cloth. On paper it is carried out as a large-scale industrial process and is an essential part of publishing. Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns that was used widely throughout East Asia and it originated in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later on paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 A. D, the earliest surviving woodblock printed fragments are from China. They are of silk printed with flowers in three colours from the Han Dynasty and they are the earliest example of woodblock printing on paper appeared in the mid-seventh century in China. By the ninth century, printing on paper had taken off, by the tenth century,400,000 copies of some sutras and pictures were printed, and the Confucian classics were in print. A skilled printer could print up to 2,000 double-page sheets per day, Printing spread early to Korea and Japan, which also used Chinese logograms, but the technique was also used in Turpan and Vietnam using a number of other scripts. This technique then spread to Persia and Russia and this technique was transmitted to Europe via the Islamic world, and by around 1400 was being used on paper for old master prints and playing cards. However, Arabs never used this to print the Quran because of the limits imposed by Islamic doctrine, block printing, called tarsh in Arabic developed in Arabic Egypt during the ninth-tenth centuries, mostly for prayers and amulets. There is some evidence to suggest that these print blocks made from non-wood materials, possibly tin, lead, the techniques employed are uncertain, however, and they appear to have had very little influence outside of the Muslim world. Though Europe adopted woodblock printing from the Muslim world, initially for fabric, block printing later went out of use in Islamic Central Asia after movable type printing was introduced from China. Block printing first came to Europe as a method for printing on cloth, images printed on cloth for religious purposes could be quite large and elaborate. When paper became relatively easily available, around 1400, the medium transferred very quickly to small religious images
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Publishing
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Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public. In some cases, authors may be their own publishers, meaning originators and developers of content also provide media to deliver, also, the word publisher can refer to the individual who leads a publishing company or an imprint or to a person who owns/heads a magazine. Traditionally, the term refers to the distribution of printed works such as books, Publishing includes the following stages of development, acquisition, copy editing, production, printing, and marketing and distribution. There are two categories of book publisher, Non-paid publishers, A non-paid publisher is a house that does not charge authors at all to publish their books. Paid publishers, The author has to meet with the expense to get the book published. This is also known as vanity publishing, at a small press, it is possible to survive by relying entirely on commissioned material. But as activity increases, the need for works may outstrip the publishers established circle of writers, for works written independently of the publisher, writers often first submit a query letter or proposal directly to a literary agent or to a publisher. Submissions sent directly to a publisher are referred to as unsolicited submissions, the acquisitions editors send their choices to the editorial staff. Unsolicited submissions have a low rate of acceptance, with some sources estimating that publishers ultimately choose about three out of every ten thousand unsolicited manuscripts they receive. Many book publishers around the world maintain a strict no unsolicited submissions policy and this policy shifts the burden of assessing and developing writers out of the publisher and onto the literary agents. At these publishers, unsolicited manuscripts are thrown out, or sometimes returned, established authors may be represented by a literary agent to market their work to publishers and negotiate contracts. Literary agents take a percentage of earnings to pay for their services. Some writers follow a route to publication. Such books often employ the services of a ghostwriter, for a submission to reach publication, it must be championed by an editor or publisher who must work to convince other staff of the need to publish a particular title. An editor who discovers or champions a book that becomes a best-seller may find their reputation enhanced as a result of their success. Once a work is accepted, commissioning editors negotiate the purchase of property rights. The authors of traditional printed materials typically sell exclusive territorial intellectual property rights that match the list of countries in which distribution is proposed. In the case of books, the publisher and writer must also agree on the formats of publication —mass-market paperback
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Electronic publishing
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Electronic publishing includes the digital publication of e-books, digital magazines, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues. Electronic publishing has become common in scientific publishing where it has argued that peer-reviewed scientific journals are in the process of being replaced by electronic publishing. The use of publishing for textbooks may become more prevalent with iBooks from Apple Inc. Electronic publishing is increasingly popular in works of fiction, electronic publishers are able to respond quickly to changing market demand, because the companies do not have to order printed books and have them delivered. E-publishing is also making a range of books available, including books that customers would not find in standard book retailers. E-publication is enabling new authors to release books that would be unlikely to be profitable for traditional publishers, the consumer may read the published content online a website, in an application on a tablet device, or in a PDF document on a computer. In some cases, the reader may print the content onto paper using a consumer-grade ink-jet or laser printer or via a print on demand system. Some users download content to their devices, enabling them to read the content even when their device is not connected to the Internet. Distributing content electronically as software applications has become popular in the 2010s, due to the rapid adoption of smartphones. With the use of tags, style sheets, and metadata, the most common file format is. epub, used in many e-book formats. epub is a free and open standard available in many publishing programs. Another common format is. folio, which is used by the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to create content for Apples iPad tablets and apps. In some fields such as astronomy and some areas of physics, however, scholarly journals still play an important role in quality control and establishing scientific credit. In many instances, the electronic materials uploaded to preprint repositories are still intended for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. There is statistical evidence that electronic publishing provides wider dissemination, because when a journal is available online, even if a professor is working in a university that does not have a certain journal in its library, she may still be able to access the journal online. In the early 2000s, many of the copyright laws were designed around printed books, magazines. For example, copyright laws often set limits on how much of a book can be reproduced or copied. At the same time, the availability of published material online opens more doors for plagiarism, unauthorized use, some publishers are trying to address these concerns. For example, in 2011, HarperCollins limited the number of times one of its e-books could be lent in a public library
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Copyediting
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In the context of publication in print, copy editing is done before typesetting and again before proofreading, the final step in the editorial cycle. In the United States and Canada, an editor who does this work is called a copy editor, an organisations highest-ranking copy editor, or the supervising editor of a group of copy editors, may be known as the copy chief, copy desk chief, or news editor. The senior subeditor of a publication is called the chief subeditor. As the prefix sub suggests, copy editors typically have less authority than regular editors, in the context of the internet, online copy refers to the text content of web pages. Similar to print, online copy editing is the process of revising the raw or draft text of web pages, copy editing has three levels, light, medium, and heavy. Depending on the budget and scheduling of the publication, the publisher will let the copy editor know what level of editing to employ, the type of editing one chooses, will help the copy editor prioritize their efforts. Within copy editing, there is mechanical editing and substantive editing and it refers to editing in terms of spelling, punctuation, correct usage of grammatical symbols, along with reviewing special elements like tables, charts, formatting footnotes, and endnotes. Substantive editing, also known as content editing, is the editing of material, including its structure, in this type of editing, internal inconsistencies and discrepancies can be dealt with. Substantive editing oftentimes can require heavy editing or rewriting as compared to mechanical editing, Mechanical editing is the process of proofreading a piece of writing for consistency, either internally or in accordance with the publishers house style. Most publishing firms use a widely recognized style manual such as The Chicago Manual of Style or The Associated Press Stylebook. Companies that produce documents and reports but do not consider themselves publishers in the usual sense, the goal of the copyeditor is to enforce inviolable rules while respecting personal stylistic preferences. This can be difficult, as some writers view grammatical revisions of the manuscript as a challenge to their intellectual ability or professional identity. For this reason, copy editors are encouraged to side with the author, if the authors preference is acceptable, it should be respected. This practice is complicated further by constantly evolving language conventions as recorded by books on grammar, additionally, the authors of such books often disagree. Content editing consists of reorganizing or restructuring the content of a document and this involves any inconsistent parts of the content as well as any variances. Copyeditors can either fix the content by rewriting it or heavily editing it, however, the copyeditor will often point out any difficult passages for the author to resolve on his or her own time. This type of fact checking is acceptable for copyeditors that know the subject matter. The copyeditor must also point out any biased language without infringing on the authors meaning and this includes material that might form the basis for a lawsuit alleging libel, invasion of privacy, or obscenity
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Marcel Proust
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He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Proust was born in Auteuil at the home of his great-uncle on 10 July 1871 and he was born during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponded with the consolidation of the French Third Republic. Prousts father, Adrien Proust, was a prominent pathologist and epidemiologist, studying cholera in Europe and he wrote numerous articles and books on medicine and hygiene. Prousts mother, Jeanne Clémence Weil, was the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family from Alsace, literate and well-read, she demonstrated a well-developed sense of humour in her letters, and her command of English was sufficient to help with her sons translations of John Ruskin. Proust was raised in his fathers Catholic faith and he was baptized and later confirmed as a Catholic, but he never formally practiced that faith. He later became an atheist and was somewhat of a mystic, by the age of nine, Proust had had his first serious asthma attack, and thereafter he was considered a sickly child. Proust spent long holidays in the village of Illiers, in 1882, at the age of eleven, Proust became a pupil at the Lycée Condorcet, but his education was disrupted by his illness. Despite this he excelled in literature, receiving an award in his final year, thanks to his classmates, he was able to gain access to some of the salons of the upper bourgeoisie, providing him with copious material for In Search of Lost Time. As a young man, Proust was a dilettante and a social climber whose aspirations as a writer were hampered by his lack of self-discipline. His reputation from this period, as a snob and an amateur, contributed to his troubles with getting Swanns Way. It is through Mme Arman de Caillavet that he made the acquaintance of Anatole France, Proust had a close relationship with his mother. To appease his father, who insisted that he pursue a career, after exerting considerable effort, he obtained a sick leave that extended for several years until he was considered to have resigned. He never worked at his job, and he did not move from his parents apartment until after both were dead and his life and family circle changed markedly between 1900 and 1905. In February 1903, Prousts brother, Robert Proust, married and his father died in November of the same year. Finally, and most crushingly, Prousts beloved mother died in September 1905 and she left him a considerable inheritance. His health throughout this period continued to deteriorate, Proust spent the last three years of his life mostly confined to his bedroom, sleeping during the day and working at night to complete his novel. He died of pneumonia and an abscess in 1922. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, Proust was involved in writing and publishing from an early age
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Bill Hosokawa
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William Kumpai Hosokawa was a Japanese American writer and journalist. While interned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, he was the editor of the concentration camps newspaper, after being freed from the camp in 1943, Hosokawa worked as a columnist and editor at The Denver Post for 38 years. He retired from the industry in 1992, at the age of 77. Hosokawa was also a prolific author and his best-selling book Nisei, The Quiet Americans chronicles the experiences of second-generation Japanese Americans, known as Nisei. Hosokawa published his work, Colorados Japanese Americans, From 1886 to the Present. His other books include Out of the Frying Pan, Thirty-Five Years in the Frying Pan, Thunder in the Rockies, The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida, Hosokawa was a recipient of the 2007 Civil Rights Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Bill Hosokawa was born on January 30,1915, in Seattle and his parents were recent immigrants from Japan. His father, Setsugo Hosokawa, who immigrated from Hiroshima, Japan, in 1899 at the age of 15, worked as a migrant farm worker, Hosokawas parents eventually settled in Seattle. Hosokawa graduated from Garfield High School in Seattle and he enrolled at the University of Washington, where he earned his bachelors degree in journalism in 1937. In 1936, while a student at UW, Hosokawas professor and adviser strongly recommended that he abandon his career goals. Hosokawa and his new wife, Alice Miyake, moved to Asia in 1938 because he was unable to land a job at any major metropolitan newspaper in the United States and he found a job working at an English-language newspaper in Singapore. He was later employed by a magazine in Shanghai, China, Hosokawas wife returned to the U. S. in anticipation of the birth of their first child. Hosokawa did not see his son, Michael, until the baby was 14 months old, the family lived in Seattle in 1941, just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Soon after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. As a result, Bill Hosokawa, his wife, and the infant son were among 120,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast who were sent to Japanese internment camps during World War II. The family was moved to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming when he was 27 years old, since Hosokawa had journalism and writing experience, he was appointed the editor of the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp newspaper, The Heart Mountain Sentinel. Hosokawa and his family were released from the internment camp in 1943, however, the experience of internment stayed with Hosokawa. For more than forty years Hosokawa published a column in the Pacific Citizen entitled From The Frying Pan and his column offered his personal observations on the internment of Japanese Americans
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Heart Mountain Relocation Center
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This site was managed before the war by the federal Bureau of Reclamation for a major irrigation project. Heart Mountain is best known for many of its younger residents challenging the controversial draft of Nisei males from camp in order to highlight the loss of their rights through the incarceration. In 1988 and 1992 Congress passed laws to apologize to Japanese Americans for the injustices during the war and to pay compensation to survivors of the camps and their descendants. The site of the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center is considered to retain the highest integrity of the ten incarceration centers constructed during World War II, the street grid and numerous foundations are still visible. Four of the original barracks survive in place, a number of others sold and moved after the war have been identified in surrounding counties and may one day be returned to their original locations. In early 2007,124 acres of the center were listed as a National Historic Landmark, the Federal Bureau of Reclamation owns 74 acres within the landmark boundary and currently administers the site. The Foundation runs the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, opened in 2011, located at 1539 Road 19, the land that would become the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center was originally part of the Shoshone Project, an irrigation project under the auspices of the Bureau of Reclamation. After the project proved too costly for the investors, the Wyoming State Board of Land Commissioners petitioned the federal government to take it over. The conduit, spanning 2.8 miles, was completed in September 1938, construction on the unfinished canal stopped after the United States entered World War II. The War Department had requested this and designated Western Washington and Oregon, southern Arizona and it defined Japanese Americans, Italian Americans and German Americans as peoples to be excluded from these areas. Soon after the War Department initiated the removal of over 110,000 Japanese Americans from these areas, the workers enclosed 740 acres of arid buffalo grass and sagebrush with a high barbed wire fence and nine guard towers. Thousands of acres of surrounding land were designated for agricultural purposes, as the center was expected for the most part to be self-sufficient. The first inmates arrived in Heart Mountain on August 12,1942,6,448 from Los Angeles County,2,572 from Santa Clara County,678 from San Francisco, and 843 from Yakima County in Washington. Some inmates went so far as to order tools from Sears & Roebuck catalogs in order to make repairs, each barracks unit contained one light, a wood-burning stove, and an army cot and two blankets for each member of the family. Bathrooms and laundry facilities were located in shared utility halls, and meals were served in communal mess halls, armed military police manned the nine guard towers surrounding the camp. Additionally, some worked on the unfinished Heart Mountain Canal for the Bureau of Reclamation. Children of inmates began school in barrack classrooms in October 1942, books, school supplies, and furniture were limited. Despite the poor condition of the facilities, attending school offered a sense of normalcy to camp children, in May 1943, the camp high school had been constructed, and the elementary school restructured
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Typesetting
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Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical types or the digital equivalents. Stored letters and other symbols are retrieved and ordered according to a languages orthography for visual display, typesetting requires the prior process of designing a font. One significant effect of typesetting was that authorship of works could be spotted more easily, during much of the letterpress era, movable type was composed by hand for each page. The form was placed in a press, inked, and an impression made on paper. During typesetting, individual sorts are picked from a case with the right hand, and set into a composing stick held in the left hand from left to right. This is reputed to be the origin of the expression mind your ps and it might just as easily have been “mind your bs and ds”. The diagram at right illustrates a cast metal sort, a face, b body or shank, wooden printing sorts were in use for centuries in combination with metal type. Not shown, and more the concern of the casterman, is the “set”, set width, like body size, is measured in points. This was particularly prevalent in book and newspaper work where rotary presses required type forms to wrap an impression cylinder rather than set in the bed of a press, advances such as the typewriter and computer would push the state of the art even farther ahead. Still, hand composition and letterpress printing have not fallen out of use. However, it is a small niche within the larger typesetting market. The time and effort required to compose the text led to several efforts in the 19th century to produce mechanical typesetting. Most of the systems involved the in-house casting of the type to be used. The Linotype machine, invented in 1884, used a keyboard to assemble the casting matrices, in the Monotype System, a keyboard was used to punch a paper tape, which was then fed to control a casting machine. The Ludlow Typograph involved hand-set matrices, but otherwise used hot metal, by the early 20th century, the various systems were nearly universal in large newspapers and publishing houses. Phototypesetting or cold type systems first appeared in the early 1960s and these devices consisted of glass disks that spun in front of a light source to selectively expose characters onto light-sensitive paper. Originally they were driven by pre-punched paper tapes, later they were hooked up to computer front ends. One of the earliest electronic photocomposition systems was introduced by Fairchild Semiconductor, the typesetter typed a line of text on a Fairchild keyboard that had no display
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Letterpress printing
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A worker composes and locks movable type into the bed or chase of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink from the type which creates an impression on the paper. With certain letterpress units it is possible to join movable type with slugs cast using hot metal typesetting. In theory, anything that is high or.918 inches can be printed using letterpress. All forms of data collection were affected by the invention of printing, as were many careers such as teachers, preachers, physicians and surgeons. More recently, letterpress printing has seen a revival in an artisanal form, johannes Gutenberg is credited with the development in the western hemisphere, in about 1440, of modern movable type printing from individually cast, reusable letters set together in a form. Movable type was first invented in China using ceramic type in 1040 AD and it was Gutenburgs screw press or hand press that was used to print 180 copies of the Bible. At 1,282 pages, it took him and his staff of 20 almost 3 years to complete and this form of presswork gradually replaced the hand copied manuscripts of scribes and illuminators as the most prevalent form of printing. Printers workshops, previously unknown in Europe before the century, were found in every important metropolis by 1500. Later metal presses used a knuckle and lever arrangement instead of the screw, Ink rollers made of composition made inking faster and paved the way for further automation. Meanwhile, a sheet of paper slid against a hinged platen, which then rapidly pressed onto the type and swung back again as the sheet was removed, as the fresh sheet of paper replaced the printed paper, the now freshly-inked rollers ran over the type again. Fully automated 20th-century presses, such as the Kluge and Original Heidelberg Platen, incorporated pneumatic sheet feed, rotary presses were used for high-speed work. In a newspaper press, a mixture called a flong used to make a mould of the entire form of type, then dried and bent. The plates were clipped to a drum and could print against a continuous reel of paper at the enormously high speeds required for overnight newspaper production. This invention helped aid the high demand for knowledge during this time period, Letterpress printing was introduced in Canada in 1752 in Halifax, Nova Scotia by John Bushell in the newspaper format. This paper was named the Halifax Gazette and became Canadas first newspaper, Bushell apprenticed under Bartholomew Green in Boston. Green moved to Halifax in 1751 in hopes of starting a newspaper, two weeks and a day after the press he was going to use for this new project arrived in Halifax, Green died. Upon receiving word about what happened, Bushell moved to Halifax, the Halifax Gazette was first published on March 23,1752, making Bushell the first letterpress printer in Halifax, and eventually Canada. There is only one surviving copy which was found in Massachusetts Historical Society
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Index (publishing)
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An index is a list of words or phrases and associated pointers to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document or collection of documents. Examples are an index in the matter of a book. The pointers are typically page numbers, paragraph numbers or section numbers, in a library catalog the words are authors, titles, subject headings, etc. and the pointers are call numbers. But according to G. Norman Knight, at that period, as often as not, among the first indexes – in the modern sense – to a book in the English language was one in Plutarchs Parallel Lives, in Sir Thomas Norths 1595 translation. A section entitled An Alphabetical Table of the most material contents of the book may be found in Henry Scobells Acts. This section comes after An index of the general titles comprised in the ensuing Table, both of these indexes predate the index to Alexander Crudens Concordance, which is erroneously held to be the earliest index found in an English book. The word is derived from Latin, in which means one who points out. In Latin, the form of the word is indices. However, this form is now seen as an archaism by many writers and commentators, the Chicago Manual of Style allows both forms. G. Norman Knight quotes Shakespeares lines from Troilus and Cressida – And in such indexes, – and comments, But the real importance of this passage is that it establishes for all time the correct literary plural, we can leave the Latin form indices to the mathematicians. The indexer reads through the text, identifying indexable concepts, the indexer creates index headings to represent those concepts, which are phrased such that they can be found when in alphabetical order. These headings and their associated locators are entered into specialist indexing software which handles the formatting of the index, the index is then edited to impose consistency throughout the index. Indexers must analyze the text to enable presentation of concepts and ideas in the index that may not be named within the text. In the United States, according to tradition, the index for a book is the responsibility of the author. Most indexing is done by freelancers hired by authors, publishers or an independent business which manages the production of a book, some publishers and database companies employ indexers. Commercial software packets are available for aiding an indexer in building a book index, there are several dedicated, indexing software programs available to assist with the special sorting and copying needs involved in index preparation. The most widely known include Cindex, Macrex and SkyIndex, tExtract is a hybrid semi-automatic program combining conventional manual indexing with automated indexing features and text linking. Embedded indexing involves including the index headings in the midst of the text itself, a usable index is then generated automatically from the embedded text using the position of the embedded headings to determine the locators
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Print on demand
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Print on demand is a printing technology and business process in which book copies do not print until the company receives an order, allowing prints of singular or small quantities. Many traditional small presses have replaced their traditional printing equipment with POD equipment or contract their printing to POD service providers, many academic publishers, including university presses, use POD services to maintain large backlists, some use POD for all of their publications. Larger publishers may use POD in special circumstances, such as reprinting older, before the introduction of digital printing technology, production of small numbers of publications had many limitations. Large print jobs were not a problem, but small numbers of printed pages were typically during the early 20th century produced using stencils and these produced printed pages of inferior quality to a book, cheaply and reasonably fast. By about 1950, electrostatic copiers were available to make paper master plates for offset duplicating machines, from about 1960 copying onto plain paper became possible for photocopy machines to make multiple good-quality copies of a monochrome original. As technology advanced it became possible to store text in digital form—- paper tape, punched cards readable by digital computer, magnetic mass storage, etc. Print on demand with digital technology is a way to print items for a fixed cost per copy, regardless of the size of the order. While the unit price of each copy is greater than with offset printing. POD has other business benefits besides lesser costs, Technical set-up is usually quicker than for offset printing, large inventories of a book or print material do not need to be kept in stock, reducing storage, handling costs, and inventory accounting costs. There is little or no waste from unsold products and these advantages reduce the risks associated with publishing books and prints and can result in increased choice for consumers. However, the risks for the publisher can also mean that quality control is less rigorous than usual. Digital technology is suited to publish small print jobs of posters when they are needed. The introduction of inks and media for large format inkjet printers has allowed artists. This was brought about after a fire destroyed £3 million worth of stock, the introduction of POD technologies and business-models has created a range of new book-creation and publishing opportunities. There are three categories of offerings. POD creats a new category of publishing company that services, usually for a fee. These services generally include printing and shipping each individual book ordered, handling royalties, the initial investment required for POD services is less than for offset printing. Other services may also be available, including formatting, proofreading, and editing, such companies are suitable for authors prepared to design and promote their work themselves, with minimal assistance and at minimal cost
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Composing stick
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Early composing sticks often had a fixed measure, as did many used in setting type for newspapers, which were fixed to the width of a standard column, when newspapers were still composed by hand. Early composing sticks were made of wood, but later iron, brass, steel, aluminium, wooden composing sticks continued to be made in large sizes into the nineteenth century, for setting wood letter and other large sizes of type for display. In the industrial age, composing sticks were manufactured by many companies, rouse company, which made composing sticks that were adjustable to the half pica, as well as a stick containing a micrometer that was infinitely adjustable. Some sticks were marked in agates as well, to aid in newspaper, a detailed examination of Gutenbergs life and invention interwoven with the underlying social and religious upheaval of Medieval Europe on the eve of the Renaissance
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Donald Knuth
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Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming and he contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation, Knuth strongly opposes granting software patents, having expressed his opinion to the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Organization. Knuth was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to German-Americans Ervin Henry Knuth and his father had two jobs, running a small printing company and teaching bookkeeping at Milwaukee Lutheran High School. Donald, a student at Milwaukee Lutheran High School, received academic accolades there, for example, in eighth grade, he entered a contest to find the number of words that the letters in Zieglers Giant Bar could be rearranged to create. Although the judges only had 2,500 words on their list, Donald found 4,500 words, as prizes, the school received a new television and enough candy bars for all of his schoolmates to eat. Knuth had a time choosing physics over music as his major at Case Institute of Technology. He also joined Beta Nu Chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity, while studying physics at the Case Institute of Technology, Knuth was introduced to the IBM650, one of the early mainframes. After reading the manual, Knuth decided to rewrite the assembly and compiler code for the machine used in his school. In 1958, Knuth created a program to help his schools basketball team win their games and he assigned values to players in order to gauge their probability of getting points, a novel approach that Newsweek and CBS Evening News later reported on. Knuth was one of the editors of the Engineering and Science Review. In 1963, with mathematician Marshall Hall as his adviser, he earned a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, after receiving his PhD, Knuth joined Caltechs faculty as an associate professor. He accepted a commission to write a book on computer programming language compilers and he originally planned to publish this as a single book. As Knuth developed his outline for the book, he concluded that he required six volumes and he published the first volume in 1968. Knuth then left this position to join the Stanford University faculty, Knuth is a writer as well as a computer scientist. Knuth has been called the father of the analysis of algorithms, in the 1970s, Knuth described computer science as a totally new field with no real identity. And the standard of available publications was not that high, a lot of the papers coming out were quite simply wrong. So one of my motivations was to put straight a story that had been very badly told, by 2013, the first three volumes and part one of volume four of his series had been published
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The Art of Computer Programming
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The Art of Computer Programming is a comprehensive monograph written by Donald Knuth that covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis. Knuth began the project, originally conceived as a book with twelve chapters. The first three volumes of what was expected to be a seven-volume set were published in 1968,1969. The first installment of Volume 4 was published in 2005, the hardback Volume 4A, combining Volume 4, Fascicles 0–4, was published in 2011. Additional fascicle installments are planned for release approximately biannually, Volume 4, during his summer vacations, Knuth was hired by Burroughs to write compilers, earning more in his summer months than full professors did for an entire year. Such exploits made Knuth a topic of discussion among the mathematics department, Knuth started to write a book about compiler design in 1962, and soon realized that the scope of the book needed to be much larger. In June 1965, Knuth finished the first draft of what was planned to be a single volume of twelve chapters. This meant the book would be approximately 2,000 pages in length, the publisher was nervous about accepting such a project from a graduate student. At this point, Knuth received support from Richard S. Varga, Varga was visiting Olga Taussky-Todd and John Todd at Caltech. With Vargas enthusiastic endorsement, the publisher accepted Knuths expanded plans, in its expanded version, the book would be published in seven volumes, each with just one or two chapters. Due to the growth in the material, the plan for Volume 4 has since expanded to include Volumes 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, and possibly more. In 1976, Knuth prepared an edition of Volume 2, requiring it to be typeset again. In 1977, he decided to spend some time creating something more suitable, eight years later, he returned with TEX, which is currently used for all volumes. Another characteristic of the volumes is the variation in the difficulty of the exercises, the level of difficulty ranges from warm-up exercises to unsolved research problems. Knuths dedication reads, This series of books is dedicated to the Type 650 computer once installed atCase Institute of Technology. All examples in the use a language called MIX assembly language. Currently, the MIX computer is being replaced by the MMIX computer, software such as GNU MDK exists to provide emulation of the MIX architecture. Knuth considers the use of assembly language necessary for the speed, covers of the third edition of Volume 1 quote Bill Gates as saying, If you think youre a really good programmer
