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Bruss. 2 : Brussels in shorts
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ISBN: 9789077549841 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leuven Oogachtend

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S.O.S. Boek : Uitgeven in eigen beheer als uitkomst voor de crisis in de boekensector
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Publisher: Leuven K.U.Leuven. Faculteit Letteren

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This master's thesis tries to chart the current conditions of literary self publishing as well as define its relationship to the Flemish publishing field. Due to an increasing industrialisation of the book trade and a commodification of its cultural texts, the publishing world has driven itself into an economical crisis and, subsequently, a qualitative crisis. Due to this crisis, a lot of couragious experiments can no longer find a publishing house willing to invest in a non-profitable project. The books that are released for the mainstream audience have become very monotonous, which has lead to a decrease of quality and diversity. The study hence wants to investigate whether or not self publishing, a practice in which the author of the text also produces the physical object - the book - and brings it to its audience without interference of a publisher, is capable of mitigating this crisis. Due to the increasing influence of the digitalisation on the book trade, self publishing has gained a lot of practitioners, who are mostly amateur writers. It has become very easy and uncostly to publish ones own work. The master's thesis will research whether or not self publishing can also become of importance in the literary world, even though a lot of the work that has been published through this means is mainly recreational writing by unaccomplished writers. But it has a chance of producing good, qualitative work, because the author is not restricted by commercial goals and thus is more free to experiment with literature. The work that comes from this kind of self publishing could be used compliment the more mainstream publications.In order to properly grasp all that publishing entails, the research was based upon a clear description of the publishing field, its operation and the evolutions it went throught since the post-war period. It also lists the various benefits and disadvantages of self publishing. Finally, it will propose a solution to the problems q...

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