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Course: Publisher´s and Editor´s Work

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Course title Publisher´s and Editor´s Work
Course code KLKS/EDIP
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Malý Radek, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The book market and its characteristics. Past, present, and developmental tendencies in the Czech book market. A book and its technicalities. Typography. Editorial work. Running a publishing firm. Edit planning. The production and manufacture of a book. Book marketing and advertising. Legal connections to publishing activities.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the activities connected with book publication. This course serves as an introduction to function of the book market in the world and especially in the Czech Republic. Students are informed about the rules of editorial work with manuscript, the technological methods employed during the preparation of book publication (setting, polygraphy, creative conception), the organization of work in contemporary publishing firms. Marketing, distribution, and advertising create one separate chapter; information about legal connections associated with this type of business is included.
As a result, students will posses basic skills in this field, being able to apply them later, either as an author or as an editor.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination

Active participation in seminars and sufficient attendance are the conditions for the acquiring credit (with a tolerated maximum of three absences per term).
Recommended literature
  • HALADA, J. Člověk a kniha. Úvod do nakladatelské specializace.. Praha, 1993.
  • MAGINCOVÁ, D. Příručka nakladatelského redaktora. Červený Kostelec, 2008.
  • PISTORIUS, V. Jak se dělá kniha. Příručka pro nakladatele.. Praha, 2003.
  • PLACÁK, P. - HORÁČEK, L. Přece tady nebudeme sedět nasucho. Praha-Litomyšl, 2014.
  • PŘIBÁŇ, M. a kol. Česká literární nakladatelství 1949-1989. Praha, 2014.
  • ŠIMEČEK, Z. - TRÁVNÍČEK, J. Knihy kupovati.. Dějiny knižního trhu v českých zemích. Praha, 2014.
  • ŠMEJKALOVÁ, V. Kniha (k teorii a praxi knižní kultury).. Brno, 2000.
  • ŠTORM, F. Eseje o typografii. Praha, 2008.
  • TRÁVNÍČEK, J. Knihy a jejich lidé. Čtenářské životopisy. Brno, 2013.
  • WOLL, T. Rukověť nakladatele.. Praha, 2002.
  • ZACH, A. Stopami pražských nakladatelských domů.. Praha, 1996.


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