aims to show that the book trade has always been hard-nosed and commercially driven. Design/methodology/approach – This … of the book business. Findings – The paper shows that the cultural industries in general and the book business in …

business point of view. In the first part of the book he analyzes how value added cost structures and business models of … publishers change. The second part of the book deals with the impact of these changes on the control of these companies. Based on …

The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses … good idea to harmonise European book policies. Our analysis suggests that the book market seems quite able to invent … solutions to specific problems of the book trade and that, apart from promoting reading, there is little need for government …

The vast majority of comic book publishers are not enforcing their copyrights against those that infringe by copying … enforce their copyrights against infringers: economic gain, distortion control and metacopyright influence. Comic book … comic book publishers are not primarily in the business of selling comic books. While they do sell comic books, a study of …

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 … illustrates the deadweight losses from restricting digital libraries, book previews, copyright litigation settlements, and dual …