About the book
Moving Through the Grey: Publishing in Action was created as a project for ISI6314 - The Publishing Business: Transformations and Opportunities course at the University of Ottawa. The book explores various aspects and perspectives of the publishing business in the context of both traditional and self-publishing practices. The advancement of technology provides more ways of communication; the trend of globalization also facilitates writers to have alternative options (eg: self-publishing) to disseminate their ideas with fewer biases and restrictions. At the same time, alternative forms of publishing may present challenges unforeseen before, like in the case of academic publishing, where no successful alternative has yet been found for a peer-review process. The scheme of self-publishing is open for opinion sharing, which helps to build a reciprocal and participatory community for those who hold common interest, and have passion to share with others. Moving Through the Grey: Publishing in Action has chapters speaking to the history of publishing, self-publishing, how social media interacts with publishing, publishing around the world, ethical issues to consider in publishing as well as the use and change of technology.
Moving Through the Grey can be accessed through the book's homepage on the OJS platform.
By Mary Aksim, Ravneet Bajwa, Anna Gopenko, Ellen O'Dair, Wanting Ma, Jiaxin Yao and Zhinan Yu