Books in the digital age : the transformation of academic and higher education publishing in Britain and the United States / John B. Thompson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thompson, John B. (John Brookshire)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2005.
Subjects:	Scholarly electronic publishing > Great Britain. Scholarly electronic publishing > United States. Publishers and publishing > Great Britain. Publishers and publishing > United States. Electronic publishing > Great Britain. Electronic publishing > United States. Scholarly publishing > Great Britain. Scholarly publishing > United States.

Table of Contents:

1. Publishing as an economic and cultural practice
2. The social structure of publishing fields
3. The publishing field since 1980
4. Academic publishing under pressure
5. Academic publishing in transition (1) : changing organizational cultures
6. Academic publishing in transition (2) : list diversification and field migration
7. Academic publishing at the crossroads
8. Higher education publishing in the US (1) : the formation of the field
9. Higher education publishing in the US (2) : the differentiation of the field
10. Higher education publishing in the UK
11. Globalization and localization in the UK field of higher education publishing
12. The digital revolution and the publishing world
13. Academic publishing and the digital revolution
14. Higher education publishing and the digital revolution
15. The hidden revolution : reinventing the life cycle of the book.

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