Product innovation is crucial for the future of the publishing industry, and the objective of this study was to understand the role of multi-disciplinarity in publishing innovation teams, typical patterns of interaction between team members, and similarities and differences in multidisciplinary...

Purpose In order to better optimize the internal management system of book publishing and to cope with the changes in the external market environment, the purpose of this paper is to carry out cross-border publishing with the help of a transmedia storytelling model to realize the transformation...

How to level up to the next transformative phase of publishing—with a critical methodology that transcends the dichotomy of paper and digital media production.Publishing is experiencing one of the most transformative phases in its history. In Tactical Publishing, a sequel to Post-Digital...

Part 1. Workflow and Project Management Theory -- Modern Publishing Operations -- Publishing Workflows -- Project Management -- The Linear Project Life Cycle -- Agile Project Management -- Part 2. Project Management in the Three Areas of Publishing -- Content Creation Project Management --...

"Book publishing in the UK is big business, contributing almost a tenth of UK employment in the creative industries and adding billions to the economy. Despite this, the sector is often overlooked in the creative industries research tide. This book remedies this gap in knowledge, providing an...

Digital technology has allowed inventors to circumvent traditional intermediaries and directly reach consumers, which may affect licensing outcomes and efficiency in the market for ideas. We study these impacts theoretically and empirically in the book publishing industry, where the number of...

Volume 3: Authors, Publishers and Copyright LawVolume 3 IntroductionBibliographyPart 1. AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND AGENTS⁰́₈Books, Booksellers and Bookmakers⁰́₉, London Magazine, Vol. 10 (February 1828), pp. 254-60.⁰́₈Authors and Publishers⁰́₉, The New Quarterly Review and...

Volume 2: Publishing and Technologies of ProductionVolume 2 Introduction BibliographyPart 1. TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSESJ. Y. W. MacAlister, ⁰́₈The Durability of Modern Papers⁰́₉, The Library, 1, 10, 1 (1898), pp. 295-304.⁰́₈A Commercial History of a Penny Magazine⁰́₉ (1833)...

Volume 1: The Structure of the IndustryGeneral IntroductionVolume 1 IntroductionBibliographyPart 1 ⁰́₃ THE OPERATION OF THE TRADE IN EARLY AND MID CENTURY ⁰́₈Regulations Governing the Issue of Trade Books⁰́₉ (1828), in Joseph Shaylor, The Fascination of Books (London: Simpkin...

"This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries. Its essays discuss this critical, but much neglected...

"Tracing the variety of printed commodities that were circulating in the urban sphere, Agnes Gehbald provides a comprehensive study of print culture in Peru in the decades before Independence. An important volume for those interested in the history of books beyond the European market."

Volume 4: Publishers, Markets, ReadersVolume 4 IntroductionBibliographyPart 1. THE PRICE OF BOOKS Charles Knight, The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: John Murray, 1854), pp. 238-58. ⁰́₈Literature for the People⁰́₉, Times (9 Feb 1854), p. 10.⁰́₈Cheap Books and their...

There is growing attention to discrimination in the media and the arts with explicit policies put in place to guarantee salary and representation for specific groups. However, the empirical support for such policies is limited. In this paper we examine book publishing using detailed micro-data...

The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...

Recent research points to a gender gap in journal article authorship: women are under-represented. Given that publishing a book remains central to many political scientists’ careers, in this paper we explore the extent to which gender publication and citation gaps also exist for books. We find...

This piece explores the digitization and uploading to the Internet of full-text books, book previews in the form of chapters or snippets, and databases that index the contents of book collections. Along the way, it will describe the economics of copyright, the "digital dilemma," and...

Digital technology has allowed inventors to circumvent traditional intermediaries and directly reach consumers, which may affect licensing outcomes and efficiency in the market for ideas. We study these impacts theoretically and empirically in the book publishing industry, where the number of...

We examine corporate publishing - i.e. firms' involvement in the production of scientific publications - with two research questions. First, why do firms publish? Through systematic literature review, we propose a framework of five incentives for firms to publish: (i) accessing external...

"The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and...

This paper explores the structure of the book publishing industry postdigitalisation. We argue that the introduction of successful e-book readers has belatedly given digitalisation the characteristics of a disruptive technology by making self-publishing a serious option for authors. This has...

Ever since the path-breaking empirical studies by Schott (1998) world systems scholars start from the well-established assumption that world science is a single gigantic center-periphery relationship. The strategic and tactical practical conclusions for individual scholars and their agenda in...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existing practices of buy-back contract adopted by a book publishing firm and the amount of profit gained by the publisher and a distributor as also the total supply chain profit generated under the current contract. The study was carried out in a...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Institutional Routines and the Victorian Publishing Industry -- Chapter 3: Authorship: Legitimation of a Literary Profession -- Chapter 4: Literary Agents: Middlemen of the Industry -- Chapter 5: Publishing Power Houses -- Chapter 6: The Macmillans: A...

Publishing is one of the oldest and most influential businesses in the world. It remains an essential creative and knowledge industry, worth over $140 billion a year, which continues to shape our education and culture. Two trends make this a particularly exciting time. The first is the...