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Abstract

Definition and Category of Electronic Publishing Kim, Kyung-Il It may fairly be said that 1990’s were the era of e-publishing. Researchers and publishers had taken a growing interest in e-publishing. Many researchers had tried to define e-publishing, but there has been some confusion. It is accounted for two reasons. First, as speed of development of e-publishing is too fast, researchers can't have time to have an idea of definitions. Secondly, researchers and publishers had wrong idea about e-publishing. Then what is the point in defining e-publishing? In early studies, introduction of computer was big point in describing the e-publishing, but nowadays it is just point. Therefore, we need to consider, I think, two aspects in defining e-publishing. First, the characteristics regarding computer mediated environ- ment. Communications in the flexibility stage have at least four characteristics, or virtuality, non-linearity, interactivity, and convergence. These characteristics are of new e-publishing environment, but not of original publishing environment. Then what are the characteristics of paper books? The characteristics according to the convergence of e-publications and paper books are value- oriented, re-readability, and storage. In the conclusion, the definition and category have two aspects that are characteristics in computer mediated environment and characteristics of printed books, and the contents of media with these two aspects are categories of e-publishing.