The Digital Publishing Revolution Is in the Rearview Mirror
It began 25+ years ago. So what is happening now?
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But we have no excuse not to see it now, nor not to discuss it now, because it tells us a whole variety of things about this present juncture. Publishing 2.0 began in July 1985, when Aldus Pagemaker went on sale. Before that, self-publishing was an activity for the wealthy, self-indulgent. Book printing was a highly specialized activity, operated by what was effectively a guild with a complex and highly technical vocabulary known only to a small group, mostly employees of the printers and a handful of employees of publishing houses. Design, typesetting, prepress—these activities were complex and untranslatable to the layperson.
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