As condições da criação coletiva no campo da edição

Abstract

Editing books is a collective work. Even though the authorship is generally attributed to the writer, we know that other professionals also participate in the process of giving shape to a book : editors, designers, proofreaders, translators, illustrators, printers, among others. The central figure, however, is that of the editor, so that the characteristics of the publication and, in particular, the more or less creative character of its plastic configuration, largely depend on the way he organises the production process. An editor may either impose a rigid organisational conduct, with imperative rules and norms supposed to be rigorously applied, or, on the contrary, favor more flexible modes of cooperation, leaving more space for self-organisation among the members of his staff and proving more open to their unplanned initiatives. Editing can thus be semiotically seen as a matter of interaction regimes between the parties involved. It is from this angle that the relationship between modes of regulation and conditions of innovation will be approached in this article.