After reading GAM3R 7H30RY and talking to marmalade yesterday about publishing networked writing in print, I've started thinking a lot more about authorship as it relates to the transfer of online-to-print material.

Among other things, lately I've started thinking about the publishing industry since graduation is looming, and in particular, I was curious about publishing writings from compilations such as slambooks. What if somebody wanted to publish a childhood slambook? Who gets the credit--the person who took the initiative and went through the formalities/procedures to getting the actual book published, or would there be some sort of "thank you to Mrs. C's sixth grade class of 1996"? I think a year or two ago, when I was in an Urban Outfitters store, I saw a book that was basically a collection of some random guy's middle school notes that he passed around behind the teacher's back when he was twelve. He'd saved all those notes and then published them in a book. I can't remember if he credited his classmates or other note writers. I remembered this example again when we read GAM3R 7H30RY and all these issues about credit and authorship came up again.