In China publishing industry, the construction of computer network is still in the primary stage, and a few publishing houses are preparing to build computer network. With the development of network technology, in the near future, China's publishing industry is bound to enter the era of network publishing-the establishment of a publishing house intranet to achieve interconnection with the Internet, and all the work of the publishing house can be carried out on the network. Publishing network has far-reaching significance. It is a greater publishing revolution than "removing lead and removing fire", which will bring China's publishing industry into the era of "farewell to paper and pen" and bring new opportunities for its high prosperity.
First, topic planning
Topic planning is the most important link in book publishing. Good topic selection is the premise and guarantee for books to produce good social and economic benefits. The networking of publishing brings new means, quick ways and great convenience to the topic planning, which makes the topic selection of publishing houses newer, faster and better.
Through the Internet, the topic planning editor can quickly know the publishing situation of a topic at home and abroad, such as publishing unit, sales volume, pricing, content summary and so on. Inside the publishing house, editors can search the manuscript library and question bank conveniently through the manuscript library and question bank established in the publishing house intranet, so as to know the publishing situation of this topic, whether this publishing house has such books, where the main readers are, whether they sell well and so on. By understanding the situation inside and outside the club, we can have a clearer understanding of the topic and avoid the repetition of the topic. Editors can also attract readers to participate in the discussion of specific topics on the network by participating in specific news discussion groups on the network. In this way, the editor can understand the readers' demand for a certain kind of book, the content that readers expect the book to contain, and the range that readers accept the pricing of a certain kind of book. Through this information, we can provide a basis for topic planning.
Through the network, editors can easily search for new materials, new achievements and new knowledge, grasp the latest academic trends and development trends of the discipline, so as to plan the latest topics according to this information and grasp the pulse of the market quickly and accurately.
Second, the editorial management
Through the publishing house intranet, the whole publishing process of books can be managed by network, including topic registration, topic approval, contribution collection, editing and processing, second trial, third trial, filing and publishing, printing, etc., which can be managed in real time and dynamically on the network. Turn on the computer at any time and enter the editing management system of the social intranet, and the editor can know the editing situation of the publishing house.
The editing management that can be carried out through the network includes: using computer network to manage the process of books from topic registration to filing and publishing, such as submission, approval and topic selection of topics, topics declared by our agency on a monthly and annual basis, general topics and key topics; Provide periodical forecast, cost forecast and real-time monitoring of manuscript progress; Real-time management of publishing plan, publishing plan, book number, sample book and manuscript file; Real-time management of remuneration and copyright; Real-time statistics and management of editing workload; Strengthen the real-time monitoring of all links in the process of book publishing, such as the link where a manuscript is located, who is the operator of this link, whether it is completed on time, the time and reasons for being ahead of time or behind; Predict the cost of books before publication, and provide the basis for book printing and pricing through the cost statistics of each stage of publication; Provide real-time data exchange between the editor-in-chief office and finance; Detailed management of published books, including classification, statistics, inquiry, etc. ; Provide online quotation to the press and publication administration.
Third, the author and the translation team
The quality of manuscripts is the vitality of books. Without a good manuscript, there can be no good book. Therefore, having a relatively stable and high-quality team of authors and translators is the key to publishing high-quality books. By establishing the database of authors and translators in the publishing house intranet, the network management of authors and translators in our society can be realized. You can access the library of authors and translators at any time in the publishing house intranet to learn about the translator team, such as name, unit, contact address, postcode, telephone number, fax number, position, education background, work resume, book publishing, personal expertise, cooperation with the publishing house and so on. Editors can get in touch with more professional technicians or experts in a certain field through bulletin board system or e-mail on the Internet, and find the best author of a certain topic through online communication with them, so that publishers have a wider choice when choosing writers and translators, thus improving the quality of manuscripts more reliably. Due to the convenience of network communication
Quickly, the editor can know the whole process of the author's creation at any time, so as to accurately convey the editor's requirements for the manuscript to the author and spell out the best manuscript.
Fourth, the office of the agency leader
After the network management of publishing houses, the biggest change is that the internal information of publishing houses is readily available, which provides great convenience for the office and decision-making of social leaders.
On the intranet of the publishing house, social leaders can know the information of the whole society in real time, such as the progress of the manuscript process (including the handling opinions of each link), cost, cycle, distribution, finance, personnel and other data, and can analyze these data, display the analysis results in the form of pie charts, histograms, curves and tables, and timely understand the information of overtime manuscripts, delayed manuscripts and over-cost manuscripts in the society, so as to provide basis for social leaders to make decisions. In the publishing house intranet, these data can be obtained and analyzed at any time, unlike in traditional publishing houses, the statistics and analysis of a certain data often take a long time, thus delaying the decision-making of social leaders.
Using intranet, social leaders can easily issue instructions and notices to various departments and obtain relevant information from different departments. The person in charge of the department reported the documents to be approved by the department to the workstation of the organ leader from the Internet, and the organ leader sent them to the person in charge of the department from the Internet after processing them. This can greatly reduce the number of meetings and liberate social leaders from the ocean of meetings. Social leaders can also learn about publishing houses when they go out to manage them. When social leaders go out, they can take their laptops with them and connect to the local computer network, or connect to the intranet of the publishing house through public telephone lines, so as to understand the situation of the publishing house and make decisions.
Five, editing and processing
Authors submit articles by e-mail or FTP, and these articles are directly stored in the manuscript library of the publishing house after being converted into files in a unified format. If the manuscript submitted by the author is still handwritten, it should be submitted to the laser phototypesetting center for input and stored in the manuscript library. When editing and processing, the editor calls out the manuscript typesetting file from the manuscript library through the network and edits and processes it on the computer.
The manuscript must go through the processes of editing, processing, second trial and third trial before it can reach the standard. After each program is executed, the manuscript will be sent to the workstation of the next program executor through the intranet. Each reviewer can directly modify the manuscript, mark different reviewers by setting different colors, automatically keep the traces and processing records (including forms and formulas) of different people on the manuscript, and clarify the responsibilities and authorities. In the process of reviewing the manuscript, the editor can have an online conversation with the author at any time through the Internet, put forward suggestions for revision of the manuscript in doubt, and solicit opinions from the author. On the other hand, in order to ensure the scientific, ideological and advanced content of the manuscript, the editor can access the Internet and make use of its huge information resource library to inquire and confirm the key contents such as materials, data and formulas in the manuscript. For a certain problem, you can also ask experts' opinions in the bulletin board system or a specific news discussion group, so as to ensure the correctness of the content.
After the manuscript has been aligned, cleared and finalized through permission setting, it cannot be edited again. At this time, you can enter the laser phototypesetting center for typesetting and output film. You can also send the sorted documents to the printing factory through the network, and the printing factory will output films and take photos and develop them. Typesetting files can be stored in the internal retrieval library and manuscript library of the publishing house for editing and retrieval; It can also form SGML (Standard generalized markup language) general document format, which can be called when making electronic publications, providing convenience for the reuse of information resources of publishing houses.
The publication of intransitive verbs
Publishing is the key to ensure the quality of book printing. Managing the publishing process well will not only greatly improve the quality of book printing, but also shorten the publishing cycle and reduce the production cost.
These goals can be easily achieved by using computer networks for management. Computer network replaces business card printing process management to shorten the book publishing cycle. During the whole publishing process from manuscript receiving to book publishing, every link can be controlled on the network, and the work progress can be registered and inquired on the network, thus actively accelerating the publication of books. Because all kinds of salary data are entered into the management system, the cost can be controlled dynamically and the predicted cost and actual cost can be compared in real time. When a manuscript exceeds the cost, the system will automatically give an early warning prompt to remind managers to monitor the cost. The publishing department can also know the status of the printed matter warehouse in real time through the network management system, and carry out real-time management and dynamic maintenance.
Seven. issue
Distribution plays an increasingly important role in publishing houses. Only through distribution can a publishing house truly realize its social and economic benefits. Computer network provides a powerful and convenient means for the distribution department.
First of all, the computer network can standardize the internal management of the distribution department and realize the automatic management of the book publishing process from publication to distribution. Book information management, such as new book storage, classified query and so on, can be realized by using the distribution management system of the publishing house intranet. Inventory and location information management, such as book storage table; Book sales management, including bill list, settlement, summary, address book, discount, etc.
Network can provide real-time management of warehouse and ensure the consistency and synchronization of logistics and information flow. By setting up a workstation in the stack room, connecting the publishing house intranet, and realizing remote networking through the public telephone network, the book storage situation can be registered in real time. At the same time, after customers pay for books in the publishing house, relevant information is uploaded to the stacks from the computer network. Customers can take books from the stacks, and the stacks can also consign or mail books to customers. The business of the store can also be carried out in this way. Distribution agencies that don't work in the same place can exchange real-time information through the network.
Secondly, the computer network provides a new distribution channel and mode. With the popularity of the Internet in China, readers will buy books from publishing houses through the Internet, read e-books produced by publishing houses through the Internet, and conduct e-commerce on books through the Internet. Publishing houses are located in distribution points all over the country, and they can also get in touch with publishing houses through computers and telephone lines to provide them with sales information, book purchase information and related information; The publishing house provides them with new book catalogue, book introduction, content summary, cover and other information.
The computer network can generate the book list in real time, providing information for book sales and reprint. According to the sales records, the book sales list can be automatically formed, which books need urgent printing and which books cannot be printed in time. Because the data of distribution department and financial department are highly correlated, it is necessary to share a lot of data. The publishing house intranet can realize seamless network link and integrated management of distribution and finance. Because of enjoying the network information, the published related information can be directly transmitted to the financial department through the network, which avoids the re-entry of financial data and reduces the workload of financial personnel.
Eight. finance
On the publishing house intranet, through the setting of network authority, the financial department can obtain financial information from other departments, thus implementing financial management; Other departments cannot access the financial management system, thus ensuring the security and confidentiality of financial data.
Because of the sharing of network data, the networked and integrated process management of finance, editing, printing and distribution departments has been realized. Through the network, financial personnel can make an intuitive and comprehensive real-time query and statistical analysis of financial data to understand the financial situation.
According to the needs, the financial statements needed by the organs and the press and publication administration can be formed in real time and submitted to the leaders of the organs or the press and publication administration through the network.
Nine. personnel department
On the intranet of the publishing house, the personnel department can conveniently manage the personnel files and salaries of employees.
X. periodicals
Publishing houses often publish periodicals and books. The publication of periodicals is different from books and has its own characteristics. Journals have a clear purpose of running a journal, a stable readership, many contributors, a high frequency of submission and a closer relationship with readers. Using the network can realize the integrated, effective and real-time management of periodicals, improve the quality of periodicals, speed up the publishing cycle and reduce the labor intensity. Periodical manuscript management, such as manuscript entry and manuscript database, can query manuscripts according to submission time, author's name, editor's name and manuscript name; Periodical editing and processing, editors can edit and process manuscripts on the computer and save the revision records; Periodical editing management, such as periodical typesetting, periodical query, manuscript statistics, remuneration calculation and approval, payroll printing, etc. Periodical system library management, such as periodical column library management, used and standby manuscript library management.
XI。 electronic publishing
After applying for an Internet address and accessing the Internet, a publishing house can publish its own electronic publications and make its own online publicity homepage through the Internet. On the homepage of online publicity, you can introduce the development history, publishing scope and internal situation of the publishing house, regularly publish our new book catalogue and introduction, and introduce the content summary, cover and other information of the book on the homepage to attract readers to read and order. Electronic publications of publishing houses can also be distributed through the network, and network users can see the introduction of electronic publications and watch some contents. If readers want to buy, they can pay through online banking, so as to obtain the right to use electronic publications.
Twelve, paperless and digital office and decision-making.
The establishment of the publishing house intranet makes it possible to realize paperless and digital publishing house office and decision-making In the future publishing house, all documents, notices and contacts will be made through the Internet. Intranet can replace other forms of internal communication, which is cheap and powerful. One of the most obvious advantages of intranet is that it eliminates the need for paper. Any publishing house employee can open any computer and run a browser, and they can see the relevant electronic information. The intranet of the publishing house converts all kinds of documents of the publishing house, including employee list, telephone numbers of various departments, training materials, notices and instructions, work arrangements, etc. , converted into electronic form, and updated at any time.
Intranet can transmit information to every computer in the same way, so it can integrate computers, software and databases scattered in publishing houses into a single system, so that employees can find information wherever they are.
Thirteen. IR
The establishment of intranet and networking with the outside world make it convenient for employees to query and retrieve information.
Storing books, periodicals, newspapers, documents and other materials of the publishing house into the database by scanning input; The relevant publishing information of the publishing house can also be stored as data in the database. The systematic and standardized management of reference room books, magazines, newspapers and periodicals and book sample stacks of publishing houses has been realized. The database includes text, pictures, sounds and other information formats, as well as sample files and hypertext files with typesetting language. The retrieval system provides powerful retrieval tools and methods such as position operation, logical operation, intelligent operation, regional operation and progressive operation to meet the retrieval requirements in different ways or for different purposes. With the construction of the database, the information in the database will become more and more abundant, and employees can search and query useful information in it.
Through the Internet, club employees can easily visit libraries at home and abroad, inquire and retrieve the latest publishing trends at home and abroad, and the information that employees need to know.
By understanding the information inside and outside the society, we can provide decision-making basis for topic planning, editing and processing, and publishing, thus bringing better social and economic benefits to the publishing house.
Fourteen Enjoy resources * * *
The establishment of intranet makes it possible to share all resources in the publishing house, and the allocation of manpower, material resources and financial resources can be optimized. If employees need to output high-quality printed documents, employees can set up a high-end laser printer as a network printer in another place through the network, so as to send their own documents to the network printer for printing, without having to configure a high-end laser printer for each office. If employees need to temporarily work in another post, they only need to set the access rights of the post on the network. What he is engaged in is to accept the leadership and command of the office, just like the work of the staff in the office where the post is located.
XV. Home Office
The rapid development of high technology represented by information technology will inevitably bring about changes in the future office model and concept. The rise of all-weather and all-round internet and intranet, as well as the development of e-mail and mobile communication, will change the face of today's office. In the future, employees will keep in touch with publishing houses through pagers, mobile phones, fax machines and more computers and modems.
Press employees can connect to the public network by configuring their home computers, or connect to the press's intranet through modems and telephone lines. Employees can work from home, understand and accept the tasks sent by the publishing house through the network, and process them on their home computers. After the completion, it is transmitted to the intranet of the publishing house through the network, and automatically or by a special person, it is transferred to the next processing flow. Relevant information can also be obtained through the network to understand the instructions and tasks issued by social leaders; Employees communicate with each other by e-mail.
XVI. Foreign Copyright Trade
With the increasing international exchanges, there will be more and more copyright trade between publishers and the international community. Copyright trade involves foreign exchange royalties, copyright management and some special regulations, so there are many procedures. Through the Internet, publishers can negotiate with foreign publishers conveniently, so as to solve related problems quickly, so that the translated books can be translated and published in time, even simultaneously with foreign books.
XVII. Long-distance communication
Based on the local area network in the society, the WWW server is established, and the security filtering of global data and local data is realized by firewall technology. On the premise of ensuring the security of the social local area network, it is interconnected with the external network for long-distance communication, so as to construct an effective channel for information exchange between publishers and higher authorities, bookstores, authors, readers and foreign publishing institutions. The realization of long-distance communication has accelerated the press's response to the market, opened up new distribution channels for the press, carried out copyright trade, and provided great convenience for editors to make full use of the powerful information resources of the Internet.