Kress 35-83

When I began reading these chapters, I could not help but to think about the Literary Festival panel that discussed literary journal editing that was held on Thursday, March 6. One of the discussions was about the move from paper journals to online journals and one of the editors was actually an editor of an online journal. This discussion was interesting because I never thought about how much more expensive it is to produce a paper journal. Although I spent some time with Dr. Wayne Chapman working on the South Carolina Review, I never really thought of paper journals as being a waste of paper. While I was working for Dr. Chapman, he had me scan old copies of The South Carolina Review so that they could be posted online and at the time I thought this process was quite mind-numbing, but once I saw all of the copies of the journal online and how easy they were to access, I began to appreciate the monotonous job I had accomplished. It makes sense with all of the technological advances to publish work online because not only are all the copies accessible all in one place, but they are accessible to anyone anywhere who has access to the internet. The issue of only putting blurbs on the Internet came up because then people would not buy the journals anymore, but for the most part, I think people who are interested in the journals will still buy them. One of the panelists also said that even though he likes to have access to the journals online, whenever he reads something off of the computer, he prints it out anyway, which I also thought was interesting. I too find it easier to read things that have been printed off of the computer as opposed to reading them off of the screen, I know that this response may not have a lot to do with what these chapters in particular were about, but it is kind of what the book as a whole is about and also something that I wanted to post about anyway, since this discussion is pertinent to our class.