An editorial model for the development and broadcasting information and documentary resources in a digital context
An editorial model for the development and broadcasting information and documentary resources in a digital context

Summary/Abstract: In a traditional editorial model for the development and broadcasting information and documentary resources –be it a book, a periodical or any other written document – the main basic components are author, editor and distributor / bookshop seller/ person responsible for the distribution and sale of documents. The author – reader model of communication in a digital environment keeps relatively few features of the traditional one, making the actors involved redefine their specific attributions. Thus, an author remains the intellectual responsible person for the information product. The building-up of information is a creative process: it represents the result of an inner working process, an intellectual and technological process resulting in an information and documentary product meeting a certain need for information. The authors of information are, usually, scientific and professional communities, scientific and educational institutions, administrative institutions and other types of organisations,and individuals independent from any type of organisational structure. Contemporary authors are increasingly dependent on electronic context and on everything else related to it. An editor is the first intermediary of a scientific, professional or literary work between the author and user (reader). An editor is responsible for the physical achievement of a work in agreement with publication and distribution standards. Producing and marketing books and other documents have an economic dimension. In the virtual space,the Internet, the editor’s field and the field of the bookseller intersect increasingly, while booksellers lose in front of the editor who chooses to sell his own products.

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