After we examined the slide show of How A Book Is Made and made up a story as a class in December, 2008, we had a discussion of the differences and similarities between book publishing and Web Page publishing. Also, some differences and similarities between a book and a web page.
1. Book publishing: you need a printer and illustrator, but you don’t really need it on the web. You don’t HAVE to illustrate for the web pages.
2. The web page we made, we didn’t have to worry about whether it would sell. For a book, you had to go through all the steps. (This is true only for free web sites.)
3. Book Publishing can take longer.
4. When you publish on the Web/Net, you can make stuff up without worrying about it being true. But when you make a book, you need to be more truthful.
5. As readers, we actually trust books a little more. (Some people.) Others trust web sites more. Some people trust both. Some people distrust both.
6. People can easily change and update a web page, but in a book, once it’s printed and published, it’s very hard (almost impossible) for these changes.
