Gideon Burton's Blog

Mormon Young Adult Fiction before Twilight

The recent and enormous attention given to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series has sparked interest in Mormon authors and those writing for the Young Adult Fiction market. Meyers is not the first Latter-day Saint author to make a splash in this national market--even if none have achieved her celebrity.

The Coming Change in Humanities Publishing (7): The Online Archive

So far in this series I have described two types of publishing we are going to see more of as the humanities (with the rest of academia) retool for the digital age: electronic publication of conventional scholarship, and Open Access publication. In this post, I discuss a third type of electronic publishing: the online archive. But wait a minute, you might say, archiving and publishing are very different things. Scholars publish; librarians archive. Right? Well, the lines have blurred, as has the very definition of what constitutes publishing today. But before discussing the changing nature of publishing, let me quickly define the online archive and sketch how it works.