Books in the Digital Age by John B Thompson

Books in the Digital Age by John B Thompson

The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution.

"As compelling as it is thorough.. a fascinating study of the contemporary academic publishing world in the UK and US."
Times Higher Education Supplement

"Likely to become the standard work in the field."
British Journal of Educational Studies

"This is undoubtedly the best book I have read about publishing ... It is the only book about publishing I have ever read where every statement rings true."
Learned Publishing

"Faultless, fascinating ... a must-read."
Logos

"A first-rate piece of scholarship."
Academic Matters

"A truly landmark study."
Journal of Scholarly Publishing

"[Those] working within academic/higher education publishing and librarianship have much to gain from this title; it is a valuable resource that explores how textbook publishing programmes in the UK and US in the early stages of the new millennium have evolved from the 1980s industry landscape. It also provides an opportunity to learn directly from senior executives within the academic publishing arena, who speak frankly, on the condition of anonymity."
InPrint

"Extremely useful to use as a potted history of a new area of interest for me."
eLucidate

"Thompson has soaked himself in publishing fact and lore. [His findings] are consistently reliable."
Science

"The world of academic publishing owes a great debt of gratitude to John Thompson ... this extensive and rigorous study is our best guide to the key issues of the day."
Drake McFeely, Chairman and President of W. W. Norton & Company

"A lucid, absorbing and accurate account of the university press world."

Walter Lippincott, Director of Princeton University Press

"Anyone wishing to know firsthand the issues that keep publishers awake at night would do well to start here. Anyone wishing to know where academic publishing is heading should look no further."
William Sisler, Director of Harvard University Press

"There is no other study of the publishing world, past or present, as comprehensive or fully researched as this."
Professor Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego

"A masterly study."
Paul Richardson, Oxford Brookes University

John Thompson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9780745634784
ISBN 10	0745634788
Title	Books in the Digital Age
Author	John B Thompson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2005-03-15
Number of pages	480
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