In Inside Book Publishing, Clark and Phillips state that ‘Digitisation is the mega trend of the age’ (Clark and Phillips, 2014). This rise in digitisation of the publishing industry has been accelerating in the last two decades, but it is not the only industry in which this has happened. Every aspect of our lives have been digitised to an extent, for convenience.
In an age where there are millions of recipes available at our fingertips, it’s surprising that recipe/cookbooks make up some of the most successful titles published. The NPD said that there were ‘huge spikes in sales of cookbooks’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, but we also know that cookbook sales have been growing steadily. But why?
HTML, or HyperText Mark-up Language, is the coding behind your favourite websites. Every element of a website, including the very one you are one now, is made up of HTML (and then styled with CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets). HTML has come a long way from where it once was. Where website developers would have to painstakingly add line after line of code in the past using HTML 1.0, now most of our HTML is managed through a Content Management System and written in HTML 5.
Blogs sprang into existence in 1994, now in 2021, there are over 600 million blogs on the internet. That’s around half of the websites that exist! But where did blogging begin and what does blogging look like now?
