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 --...

Part 1 Young Professionals in Publishing – Expectations, Challenges, Chances -- Preface Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Edinburgh Napier -- University -- Preface Springer Nature -- 1. The Landscape of the Publishing Industry and its Job Market -- 2. Young Professionals in Publishing --...

"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...

This paper examines the competitive effects of resale price maintenance (RPM) through inventory decisions under demand uncertainty. We focus on the Japanese publishing industry where RPM is allowed. We develop and estimate a model of RPM in which price and inventory are determined before demand...

The term independently-hosted is used here to describe online publishing practices that utilise the World Wide Web (hereafter the Web) as a decentralised socio-technical system, where individuals and communities operate as the owners or controllers of the online infrastructures they use in order...

This paper examines the competitive effects of resale price maintenance (RPM) through inventory decisions under demand uncertainty. We focus on the Japanese publishing industry where RPM is allowed. We develop and estimate a model of RPM in which price and inventory are determined before demand...

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...

Advertising Decline as a Media-Economic Factor: From Two-Sided Markets to Datafication in Journalism -- Book/Book Groups -- Changing Use of Audiovisual Media -- Classical Political Economy -- Commercial Audience Market Research -- Controlling in media companies -- Corporate Social Responsibility...

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...

From 1790 to 1891, the United States prevented foreign authors from obtaining domestic copyright protection, implicitly subsidizing a domestic reprinting industry. With foreign works a “free” and unprotected resource, American publishers created a system of voluntary norms, known as “trade...

This paper investigates the merits of a new related right press publisher. To this end, the paper investigates the economic and technical background and outlines the potential effects of the European Commission’s current proposal for a publisher’s right. The paper comes to the conclusion...

This paper aims to explore wage differentials between employees in three sub-industries of the cultural industries compared with the main (1-digit level) industry to which they belong. We use data from the Wage Indicator Questionnaire 2001/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in...

Selling products related to publisher activities is nothing new. But over recent years, the breadth, range, and scope of eCommerce opportunities available to publishers has expanded greatly.This report looks in-depth at those publishers harnessing eCommerce to great effect, including BuzzFeed,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected most industries, including the publishing and media sectors. Arguably, the advertising downturn associated with the pandemic makes it clearer than ever that companies need to diversify their revenue streams. Facing an "extinction event," as the...

We model an asymmetric ad-network duopoly with heterogeneous publishers and advertisers to assess the effects of data and tracking restrictions on profits. Publishers and advertisers vary in their sizes and preferences towards the two ad networks, and networks differ in terms of the revenues...

This paper provides an institutional and empirical analysis of the highly concentrated market of academic publishing, characterized by over-proportionally high profit margins for publishing companies. The availability of latest research findings is of primary importance for researchers,...

Technology is taking over the world. Moreover, Artificial Intelligence or AI as the latest form of disruption seems to take over the work of creative workers: we find AI as the creator of oil paintings and as potential journalists. AI even takes the approach of creative writing. Therefore, the...

This study explores how ICTs and the Internet are influencing, and being influenced by, the evolution of institutions, organizations and workflows that play a role in scholarly work. Based on a literature review and a structured analysis of 8 carefully selected web sites, this study explores:...

The study of the impact of institutions on the economy necessitates the assessment of such impacts and the definition of a clear list of methods and criteria for evaluation. The purpose of our research is the formation of a methodological approach that would allow to compare the institutional...

List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Background; Chapter 3: Journals; Chapter 4: Publishers; Chapter 5: Stakeholders; Chapter 6: Hijacked Publishing; Chapter 7: Conferences; Chapter 8: Metrics and Indexes; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; References;...

Copyright affects the distribution of creative content. Taking works off copyright promotes their availability, which benefits consumers. But it also allows generic entry to dissipate producer surplus. This paper examines the effect of a copyright on the availability and price of books when...

Tension between value creation and value appropriation can arise when firms enter relationships with a platform. While creating value collectively, these relationships strengthen the network effects which increase the platform's ability to appropriate value. This shift in bargaining position...

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...