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Title: From the Print Media to the Internet

Author: Marie Lebert

Release Date: October 26, 2008 [EBook #27030]

Language: English

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FROM THE PRINT MEDIA TO THE INTERNET

MARIE LEBERT

Editions 00h00, Paris, 1999 & NEF, University of Toronto, 2001

Copyright (C) 1999 Marie Lebert

How does the world of the print media approach this new means of communication
that is the Internet? How does the Internet take into account the various parts
of the print media? A study written in March 1999 and based on many interviews.
With many thanks to Laurie Chamberlain, who kindly edited this paper. The French
version of this paper - De l'imprime a Internet - is not a translation, but a
different text. The original versions are available on the NEF, University of
Toronto: http://www.etudes-francaises.net/entretiens/print.htm

TABLE

1. Introduction

2. The Internet

3. On-Line Bookstores

4. Publishers on the Web

5. On-Line Press

6. Libraries on the Web

7. Digital Libraries

8. On-Line Catalogs

9. Perspectives

10. Index of Websites

11. Index of Names

1. INTRODUCTION

The world of the print media is big: it includes everything related to books,
periodicals and pictures. The world of the Internet is much bigger. It is that
tremendous network which is leading to the upheaval of communications and
working methods we are hearing so much about.

Are these two worlds antagonistic or complementary? What is the influence of one
world on the other, and vice versa? How does the world of the print media accept
this tremendous means of communication which is the Internet? How does the
Internet take into account this centuries-old tool which is the print media? Do
they work together? Do they compete? What is their common future? Will the world
of the Internet completely swallow up the world o