Book Publishing Research Articles

MANAJEMEN PEGAWAI PEMERINTAH DENGAN PERJANJIAN KERJA (PPPK): SEBUAH ALTERNATIF KEPEGAWAIAN BARU SELAIN PNS

Pegawai Pemerintah dengan Perjanjian Kerja (PPPK) are one type of staffing in government agencies. PPPK is based on specific competencies and skills, so a PPPK is an employee ready to work immediately. PPPK is managed by Government Regulation No. 49 of 2018 concerning PPPK Management. Since its issuance in 2018, Government Regulation No. 49 of 2018 concerning PPPK Management has yet to be fully implemented. This is because several derivative regulations from Government Regulation No. 49 of 2018 concerning PPPK Management still need to be made available. In addition, the PPPK recruitment process is still based on transferring contract workers to become PPPK. This study aims to describe PPPK management based on the perspective of the laws governing it and its implementation and the differences and similarities with the management of Civil Servants. The methodology used is descriptive qualitative with literature studies on laws and regulations, publication of journals or books with the theme of Human Resource Management (MSDM) and Government Employees with Employment Agreements (PPPK). Based on an analysis of several documents, the derivative policy of Government Regulation No. 49 of 2018 concerning PPPK Management has yet to be fully available. One of them is related to the termination of the employment agreement. In addition, the implementation of PPPK recruitment is still very much focused on transferring contract workers to PPPK. Thus, not all of the technical regulations related to PPPK can be implemented ideally. One of them is related to the need for competency development

Reflections on ‘Towards Sustainable Open Access Book Publishing in the African Context’, a workshop at the University of Cape Town

Reflections on ‘Towards Sustainable Open Access Book Publishing in the African Context’, a workshop at the University of Cape Town

Uneven geographies of power in UK higher education's conjunctural crisis: A response to Gandy

AbstractThis article constitutes a response to Matthew Gandy’s article ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy in the form of a conjunctural analysis’. It discusses the UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) open‐access proposal for book publications in the context of broader and chilling attacks on academic freedom driven in large part by the current government and supported by UKRI. It argues that there is a lot at stake, not just our ability as academics to publish in university and activist presses, but also our ability to express our solidarity with Palestine, to defend the rights of transgender people, to withdraw our labour and engage in other political actions and forms of expression in the face of oppression.

Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc

Abstract Sébastien Le Clerc was born into a family of goldsmiths in Lorraine, and received classical artisanal training. Yet over the course of a highly successful career as an engraver, he also became a widely published scientific author. This paper argues that geometrical skills played a key role in the dual development of Le Clerc’s career, and in his striving for recognition as a man of letters, as well as an engraver. By a detailed study of the geometrical skills displayed in Le Clerc’s two geometrical publications, this paper revisits the thorny question of the relations between scholars and artisans in the early modern period. Rather than a dependence on his hands-on, bodily experience, it was Le Clerc’s skill in geometry that lent support to his aspiring scholarly career.

More than Just a Business: Recasting Literary Publishing in Postwar Germany, 1945–1949

Like other creative industries emerging in mid-1945 from 12 years of Nazi rule, including six years of war, German publishing was ideologically suspect, internationally isolated, and insular. By the 1950s, however, the book trade in the two German successor states was once again varied and vibrant. And it was also tightly integrated into the international publishing business, within which it had become an increasingly active and important presence. This article analyzes the development of the German book publishing industry during the Allied occupation, 1945-1949, through the lens of knowledge transfer. It was a time during which capital-starved German publishers harnessed the political and ideological objectives of the occupiers and their prewar contacts to achieve their own commercial and cultural ambitions, including taking initial steps toward internationalization. The focus is on literary fiction, a genre that constituted a minority of all published output in the postwar period, but which also included all top bestsellers. Literature in translation, moreover, accounted for a substantial proportion of those bestselling books, and at the same time represented a key vehicle for internationalization. Two case studies, one drawn from the Soviet zone of occupation, the later East Germany, and one from the western zones that came to be dominated by the Americans, the later West Germany, illustrate two different, yet remarkably similar paths through which this interplay of ideological alignment and commerce played out among a range of actors and laid the basis for the subsequent development of the industry.

Planetary Gifts of Law and Literature

What remains of European thought in law and literature’s “global turn”? To address the question, this article reopens Nuruddin Farah’s Gifts (1993) alongside modern and contemporary writings on globalization, cosmopolitanism, and their (de)constitutive medial conditions. Scholarship in law and literature, comparative literature, and world literature are first reviewed for their disclosed risks and potentials of attending to postcolonial literature in the name of globalization. This is followed by a return to Farah’s novel and its pertaining European intertexts, including Immanuel Kant’s essays on cosmopolitanism, enlightenment, and book publishing. I suggest that these key exchanges between Farah’s critique of humanitarian aid in late-1980s Somalia and Kant’s classics reflect the importance of (re)staging dialogues between postcolonial literature and the European legacy as we work towards a planetary discourse of law and literature.

V.A. Favorsky’s Theory of the Book and the Problem of Artistic Interpretation of Literary Content

The article is devoted to the actual problems of the theory of the book, created and largely practically implemented by V.A. Favorsky and his associates in the 1930s —1950s. This theory was based on the principle of perception of the book as a synthetic art, which is confirmed by the tradition of handwritten books, relevant to the era of printing. The main contradiction faced by those who largely follow the work of V.A. Favorsky remains the correlation of the aesthetic concept of the book with its literary content. There are many dark places in V.A. Favorsky’s theory connected with this problem. Different approaches to this problem, characteristic of such a complex, synthetic work as a book, are analyzed, including issues related to the psychology of creativity, with a deep study of literary material when working on a book. The ambiguous experience of V.A. Favorsky, associated with immersion in the material of the book, with the study of the cultural context of the work, is considered. The article also highlights the important problem for V.A. Favorsky of the perception of a literary text in connection with the ideology and historical context of various epochs.The theoretical legacy of V.A. Favorsky does not lose relevance in our time, when the art of books is in need of pioneering approaches related to electronic publications of various types, including on the basis of the principle of “relay race of arts”, developed by the director and art theorist S.V. Obraztsov. Taking into account the current state of book publishing and its prospects, an updated appeal to the legacy of V.A. is proposed. Favorsky, which would solve the task of creating books at a high artistic level, taking into account the educational and informative functions of the book, without contradictions with the literary content of the work.

Amy Koerber, Jesse C. Starkey, Karin Ardon-Dryer, R. Glenn Cummins, Lyombe Eko and Kerk F. Kee. 2023. The Predatory Paradox: Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 276 pp. £29.95. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1-80511-134-4. Also available open access and in other formats at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0364

Amy Koerber, Jesse C. Starkey, Karin Ardon-Dryer, R. Glenn Cummins, Lyombe Eko and Kerk F. Kee. 2023. The Predatory Paradox: Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 276 pp. £29.95. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1-80511-134-4. Also available open access and in other formats at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0364

Markers of social status in Polish printers' signatures (1501-1545)

The article raises the problem of status representation in the signatures of book printers of the Kingdom of Poland. First of all, the study concerns the identified features in the publications of I. Vietor and J. Haller; to a lesser extent - S. Giber, K. Hochfeder, F. Ungler and M. Scharfenberg. Although the publisher's signature form did not undergo significant changes during the 1st half of the 16th century, we find specific markers of social status among the listed printers. These markers are not characteristic of previous and subsequent Polish book publishers, but are characteristic, firstly, of a certain circle of printers outside the Kingdom of Poland, and secondly, of the social environment that existed at that time, in which certain epithets conveyed information about a person’s place in the hierarchy. The focus on the readership demand of intellectuals and connections with the University of Krakow were also reflected in the publishing signatures: printers classified their activities in the field of sciences and arts ("ars"), and also presented themselves in terms accepted in the scientific community ("egregius vir", "spectabilis vir dominus"). This part of the self-representation of entrepreneurs once again testifies to their involvement in the structure of European humanist printers, who, like their Polish colleagues, sought to declare in their signatures their connections with the scientific community and Renaissance culture. At the same time, the appearance of the epithets identified in the structure of the publisher's signature has not only a linguistic connection, but also a chronological one: the concepts under study disappear in the middle of the 16th century from Polish publications and is reduced to a minimum in publications of other European lands.

“A Random Exception or the First Sign?”. How the Book “Works” by Nikolai Fedorov was Published and Received: New Materials (1982–1983)

This is the third article in the thematic series devoted to th4e publication in 1982 of the “Works” by Nikolai Fedorov as part of the academic series (library) “Philosophical Heritage”. It is devoted to the public outcry caused by the book publication, the reaction to its appearance on the part of policymakers and higher academic authorities (1982–1983). In the article the author examines the circumstances of the book’s publication, including the fi nal editing of the text, due to group political and ideological motives; organizational events carried out after the publication of the book by party and scientifi c governing bodies, as well as the anti-Fedorov campaign launched in the press during this period, its content and participants.

“Creating Sensation”: Public Background of Nikolai Fedorov’s “Works” Publication in the “Philosophical Heritage” Series (1970–1980)

The publication of “Works” by Nikolai Fedorov as part of the academic series (library) “Philosophical Heritage” in 1982 and the processes accompanying it was one of the mysterious pages in the history of domestic philosophical book publishing, as well as a landmark and resonant event of science and culture, society and state of the late Soviet period. One can single out three main stages in the history of Fedorov’s book: preliminary information campaign in scientifi c and literary publications (1970–1980); organization of publication, behind-the-scenes struggle to get the book out of print and its subsequent public promotion (1979–1981); the public response caused by the book, the reaction to its appearance of the policymakers and higher academic authorities (1982–1983). This article is the fi rst in a thematic series and examines the information campaign of 1970–1980, aimed at popularizing and updating of Fedorov’s legacy in Soviet society: its socio-political and spiritual-cultural context, periodization, meaningful ideological orientation, theoretical inspirers and participants, the main results achieved.

The sound of the Italian comic book: Representing noises, senses, and emotions across 80 years

Abstract This article will describe the long-time use of sound symbolic forms (including ideophones and interjections) in Italian Disney comic book publications, from the 1930s until recent times. This is achieved through the diachronic analysis of ∼4,700 entries coming from a corpus of sound symbolic forms as compiled by the author, taken from 210 Disney stories. Each of the entries was classified according to five different sound symbolic types based on the event, scenario, or situation they referred to. This analysis will provide an ideal chance to comment on several features exploited in the creation and use of sound symbolic forms and will be offered together with elucidations on a few under-researched areas within the linguistic study of sound symbolism. Quantitative data will be provided on (1) the lexical status of these forms, (2) their language of origin, and (3) the frequency of the five sound symbolic types. Additional commentary will also be offered on the various lexical and phonaesthetic experimentations featured in the comic strips. The results will be based on the comparison of the data coming from the corpus with existing research on these topics.

Из истории «Кольской земли» И. Ф. Ушакова: замысел и этапы подготовки книги

The article examines the history of the preparation of the monograph of the Murmansk historian I. F. Ushakov "Kola land". The book became the final study of the pre-Soviet history of the Kola North, bringing its author well-deserved recognition. The article pays attention to the circumstances of the preparation of this study, the role of institutions (Murmansk Book Publishing House), structures (Department of History of the Murmansk State Pedagogical Institute) and personalities in the implementation of the creative idea. A significant role in the preparation of the book was played by the scientific cooperation of I. F. Ushakov and I. P. Shaskolsky.

Macao's academic book publishing industry: A SWOT and PEST analysis

AbstractMacao's academic book publishing industry has a rich history and has grown significantly over the past two decades. This study employs a semi‐structured in‐depth interview to evaluate the current and prospective state of Macao's academic book publishing industry. The SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis and the PEST (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological) analysis are used in this study. The strengths of Macao's academic book publishing industry include that requesting an ISBN in Macao is easy and quick under the principle of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ and financial support from the Macao SAR government. However, the industry faces several weaknesses, including an underdeveloped cultural industry, a small seller market and a talent shortage, and less copyright output. Opportunities for the industry exist through constructing a Culture‐based Bay Area in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area and developing an international hub for digital trade in the Guangdong–Macao In‐Depth Cooperation Zone–Hengqin. However, Macao's academic book publishing industry is threatened by emerging Internet technologies, such as augmented reality, the metaverse, and ChatGPT. This paper also proposes strategies for future practice, such as taking the initiative to encourage a group of top‐tier publishers to establish branches in Macao and improve publications’ cultural elements. The findings of this study provide valuable insights into the strategic management of Macao's academic book publishing industry and will be of interest to publishers, academic researchers, and policymakers.

From the History of Publishing Children s Literature in Azerbaijan

The article is devoted to the historical study of the publication of children's literature in Azerbaijan. Among the Azerbaijani enlighteners in the development of children's literature, the important role of A. A. Bakikhanov, M. Sh. Vazeh, M. F. Akhundov, G. B. Zakir, H. B. Zardabi and S. A. Shirvani. It also systematizes information about the initiatives taken in the field of children's literature in the first half of the XIX century, in the second half of the XIX century, about the publication of books, albeit with great difficulty. The researcher also provides extensive information that the increase in the number of printing houses at the beginning of the XX century created favorable conditions for the publication of children's books. The article also provides detailed information about the books written by the intelligentsia of that time in different years, and the printing houses that published them.

“Rakstu Avots” – Latvijas Evaņģēliski luteriskās baznīcas grāmatu sērijas ideja un tās īstenojums (1932–1940)

Appreciating the essential role of books in shaping the worldview of individuals, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (LELB) and its pastors actively published books on Christian themes in the independent Republic of Latvia (1918–1940). Among them was the book series “Source of Writings” (Rakstu Avots) initiated and edited by a pastor, bibliophile, and librarian Gustavs Šaurums (1883–1952). Almost 90 titles of books were published in the series from 1933 until the Soviet occupation in the summer of 1940. The aim of the book series was to prevent the influence of “harmful” literature on society, offering good religious reading material instead. The research aims to determine the opinion of LELB pastors about the most important ethical values and reading material needed by society, as well as society’s attitude towards this literature. The main source of the research is the book set of the series. The bibliographic method (collection of bibliographic information about the book series and its analysis) used in the research allows us to ascertain the range of authors and works chosen by the publishers, the frequency of publishing, the circulation and other important characteristics of books. The text analysis method provides an opportunity to determine the essential ideas the publisher wanted to popularise and strengthen in society. The publishing frequency of the series (one printed work every month) and the consistently low price (the annual set cost one lat) are commendable. The annual sets of the series did have 12 issues, but they were small in size, modestly designed, and mostly printed in Gothic script (except for the children’s books, which were printed in antique type and usually illustrated). The works postulated a strong Christian faith and complete trust in God’s destiny as a fundamental ethical value. The works of the series, kept in the spirit of conservatism, did not take into account the complex life situation of the 20th-century individual, in which he had to face various spiritual, intellectual movements and growing secularism. The series gained attention only in the LELB environment.

The Reich Chamber of Culture: Ideology, Structure and Interaction With an Artist in the Third Reich

The presented article aims to analyse the activities of one of the key management structures in the Third Reich, the so-called Reich Chamber of Culture. The main focus is placed on such aspects as the ideological influence of culture and the formation, through culture, of a united and consolidated "spirit of the nation". It is argued that the foundation of notions propagated by Nazi ideologists lied in the philosophical tradition of understanding the values and significance of German culture, which supported the perceived uniqueness of the "national cultural spirit". The article delves into the organisational mechanisms of control over cultural processes in the Third Reich. A special attention is given to exploring how the complex bureaucratic apparatus that amalgamated seven chambers would control literally all spheres of culture — from book publishing to cinema, from amateur groups to professional theatres and concert halls. Interaction with artists became one of the principal methods of cultural consolidation for the Reich Chamber of Culture under the Nazi regime. All artists, except for those of Jewish origin, were obliged to join the Reich Chamber of Culture; otherwise, they were barred from conducting their professional activities. Accordingly, based on typical examples of how individual artists were able to fare in their creative activities, the article discusses various ways of artists’ interaction with the totalitarian regime — from cooperation to cultural resistance and creativity in exile — and outlines the key models of such interaction. In conclusion, the author points out to the strategic nature of the Reich Chamber of Culture in the Nazi policies, its orientation towards diversifying the forms in which the regime’s goals were to be implemented through the extensive bureaucratic system, of the kind specially built to transmit state ideology

Against book enclosures: Moving towards more diverse, humane and accessible book publishing

AbstractMatthew Gandy's Commentary in Area (2023) criticised the decision of the national funder UKRI to mandate that all books resulting from the research that it funds must be published open access (OA) from 2024. This raises many issues of importance to geographers. We argue that scholars in the discipline need to fight for affordable and ethically produced OA books, not ‘legacy’ modes of publishing. In particular, books produced by scholar‐led OA presses will not harm the reputation of departments or individual scholars, and they also have the potential to reduce significant financial barriers to accessing books across the globe. A more powerful critique must be to challenge the continued ‘enclosure’ of books, and the denial of OA by academic publishers and university presses.

Private initiative as a growth factor of Book publishing activity in Russia in the last third of the 18th century

Importance. A landmark event in the history of Russia in the last third of the 18th century was the development of private printing houses, which destroyed the state and church monopoly on printing publications. The work of publishing houses played a decisive role in satisfying the spiritual needs of the broad masses of the population, contributed to the secularization of the national book culture. At the same time, the richness and diversity of fiction, educational and scientific literature, produced both in Russian and in foreign languages, thoroughly influenced the emergence and dissemination of new information and facts, increased the level of education of all segments of the reading population. Despite the existence of extensive research on the book publishing of this period, there is a well-known imbalance in the description of the activities of famous domestic printers and their foreign colleagues. Meanwhile, it was foreign specialists (I.M. Hartung, J.J. Weitbrecht, etc.) who played a key role in opening the first private printing houses in Russia. The study of their activities contributes to the increment of knowledge on the Russian book culture history, allows you to consider unknown pages of Russian book publishing and book trade.Research Methods. The main sources of the study are the materials of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (Fund 17, Fund 248), as well as legislative acts and orders of that time that influenced the book trade.Results and Discussion. Being a characteristic feature of the development of information culture in the first half of the 18th century, censorship could not stop the transformative role of books in the history of Russia. As a result of the intensification of book printing in the country, the emergence of free book trade, the successful operation of new education models, interest in printed products has noticeably increased. Book business has ceased to be only a capital occupation and has become the property of the whole country. By allowing everyone to start printing houses at will, the state equated them with factories, which facilitated the processes of creating and developing their own printing business.Conclusion. The activity of private book publishers in Russia in the second half of the 18th century created opportunities for the formation of the national book market, filling it with various scientific, fiction and educational literature. Thus, the printers contributed to the dissemination of the widest knowledge among the Russian population, increased the variety and quality of the literature sold.

From Musical Writings To Writing Music: Book-Writing Leading to Music School in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta

Print created the urge to innovate new modalities of musical knowledge production and dissemination in nineteenth-century Bengal. Publication of music books made the bifurcation between music theory and practice clearer, but only as a textual category. As the literature suggests, these were two categories for organizing musical knowledge, intimately entwined, where one produces the other and also doesn't exist without each other. The technology of ‘swaralipi’ (musical notation) used in the modern printed books materialized the project of disseminating music to the reader who could now ‘read’ the music from the book. For some book writers, music books were meant to be a replacement for the oral tutelage, published as ‘self-instructors’. But, on the contrary, the most prolific book-writers of the time used their books as the basis of oral tutelage in the music school. In the modern setting of the music school, the person of the ‘guru’ or ‘ustad’ was replaced by the formalized, systematic teaching of the ‘professors’ of music. Music books, as the medium of modern music pedagogy, thus changed not only the way students learned – making it possible to learn from the book with no instructor – but also the role of teachers, whose teaching was validated by the book. The music books came to function as the ‘modern shastras’ – to exercise regulatory authority over music practice, and how music is learned and taught. The ‘orality’ of music emerges as a liminal space in the gap between the writings on music and the writing of music. What emerges is an unlikely milieu where a new form of musical education is devised, the possibility of an education without a guru is conceived, and the schema of musical notation brings the entire process to life.