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Summary: The world of the academic journal continues to be one of
radical change. A followup volume to the first edition of The
Future of the Academic Journal, this book is a significant
contribution to the debates around the future of journals
publishing. The book takes an international perspective and looks
ahead at how the industry will continue to develop over the next
few years. With contributions from leading academics and industry
professionals, the book provides a reliable and impartial view of
this fast-changing area. The book includes various discussions on
the future of journals, including the influence of business models
and the growth of journals publishing, open access and academic
libraries, as well as journals published in Asia, Africa and South
America. About the Editors: Bill Cope is Professor in the
Department of Educational Policy Studies, Organization and
Leadership at the University of Illinois, USA and Director of
Common Ground Publishing. From 2010-2013 he was Chair of the
Journals Publication Committee of the American Educational Research
Association. He is the author of a number of books, including, with
Mary Kalantzis and Liam Magee, Towards a Semantic Web: Connecting
Knowledge in Academic Research, also published by Chandos, in 2011,
and with Mary Kalantzis, Literacies, 2012. Angus Phillips is
Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
at Oxford Brookes University. He has degrees from Oxford and
Warwick universities and before joining Oxford Brookes he ran a
trade and reference list at Oxford University Press. His books
include Turning the Page: The evolution of the book, hich examines
the effects of digital and other developments on the book itself.
He is also the author, with Giles Clark, of Inside Book Publishing.
He is the editor of the premier publishing jounal, Logos. Table of
Contents: Introduction; Changing knowledge ecologies and the
transformation of the scholarly journal; Sustaining the 'Great
Conversation' the future of scholarly and scientific journals;
Academic journals in a context of distributed knowledge; Business
models in journals publishing; The growth of journals publishing;
The post-Gutenberg open access journal; How the rise of open access
is altering journal publishing; Gold open access: the future of the
academic journal?; The future of copyright: what are the pressures
on the present system?Journals ranking and impact factors: how the
performance of journals is measured; The role of repositories in
the future of the journal; The role of the academic library; Doing
medical journals differently: Open Medicine, open access and
academic freedom; The Elsevier Article of the Future project: a
novel experience of online reading; The future of Latin American
academic journals; The status and future of the African journal;
Academic journals in China: past, present and future.
This is an exciting period for the book, a time of innovation,
experimentation, and change. It is also a time of considerable fear
within the book industry as it adjusts to changes in how books are
created and consumed. The movement to digital has been taking place
for some time, but with consumer books experiencing the transition,
the effects of digitization can be clearly seen to everybody. In
Turning the Page Angus Phillips analyses the fundamental drivers of
the book publishing industry - authorship, readership, and
copyright - and examines the effects of digital and other
developments on the book itself. Drawing on theory and research
across a range of subjects, from business and sociology to
neuroscience and psychology, and from interviews with industry
professionals, Phillips investigates how the fundamentals of the
book industry are changing in a world of ebooks, self-publishing,
and emerging business models. Useful comparisons are also made with
other media industries which have undergone rapid change, such as
music and newspapers. This book is an ideal companion for anyone
wishing to understand the transition of the book, writing and
publishing in recent years and will be particularly relevant to
students studying publishing, media and communications.
Now fully revised and updated for its sixth edition, Inside Book
Publishing is the classic introduction to the book publishing
industry. Giles Clark and Angus Phillips offer authoritative
coverage of all sectors of the industry, from commercial fiction
and non-fiction to educational publishing and academic journals.
They reveal how publishers continue to adapt to a fast-changing and
highly interconnected world, in which printed books have proved
resilient alongside ebooks and the growth of audio. Major themes
are explored, including the development of digital products and the
use of social media in book marketing, as well as those that affect
publishers' businesses, such as the rise of internet retailing;
rental models for student textbooks; and open access, where
academic content is free to the user. Case studies from industry
experts give fascinating perspectives on topics such as
crowdfunding, self-publishing and how authors can market
themselves. The book provides excellent overviews of the main
aspects of the publishing process: commissioning authors, product
development, design and production, marketing, sales and
distribution. As a manual for those in the profession and a guide
for the potential publishers of the future, Inside Book Publishing
remains a seminal work for anyone with an interest in the industry.
It will also be of interest to authors seeking an insider's view of
this exciting industry.
This is an exciting period for the book, a time of innovation,
experimentation, and change. It is also a time of considerable fear
within the book industry as it adjusts to changes in how books are
created and consumed. The movement to digital has been taking place
for some time, but with consumer books experiencing the transition,
the effects of digitization can be clearly seen to everybody. In
Turning the Page Angus Phillips analyses the fundamental drivers of
the book publishing industry - authorship, readership, and
copyright - and examines the effects of digital and other
developments on the book itself. Drawing on theory and research
across a range of subjects, from business and sociology to
neuroscience and psychology, and from interviews with industry
professionals, Phillips investigates how the fundamentals of the
book industry are changing in a world of ebooks, self-publishing,
and emerging business models. Useful comparisons are also made with
other media industries which have undergone rapid change, such as
music and newspapers. This book is an ideal companion for anyone
wishing to understand the transition of the book, writing and
publishing in recent years and will be particularly relevant to
students studying publishing, media and communications.
Now fully revised and updated for its sixth edition, Inside Book
Publishing is the classic introduction to the book publishing
industry. Giles Clark and Angus Phillips offer authoritative
coverage of all sectors of the industry, from commercial fiction
and non-fiction to educational publishing and academic journals.
They reveal how publishers continue to adapt to a fast-changing and
highly interconnected world, in which printed books have proved
resilient alongside ebooks and the growth of audio. Major themes
are explored, including the development of digital products and the
use of social media in book marketing, as well as those that affect
publishers' businesses, such as the rise of internet retailing;
rental models for student textbooks; and open access, where
academic content is free to the user. Case studies from industry
experts give fascinating perspectives on topics such as
crowdfunding, self-publishing and how authors can market
themselves. The book provides excellent overviews of the main
aspects of the publishing process: commissioning authors, product
development, design and production, marketing, sales and
distribution. As a manual for those in the profession and a guide
for the potential publishers of the future, Inside Book Publishing
remains a seminal work for anyone with an interest in the industry.
It will also be of interest to authors seeking an insider's view of
this exciting industry.
This is a book about the book. Is this a book? is a question of
wide appeal and interest. With the arrival of ebooks, digital
narratives and audiobooks, the time is right for a fresh discussion
of what is a book. Older definitions that rely solely on print no
longer work, and as the boundaries of the book have been broken
down, this volume offers a fresh and lively discussion of the form
and purpose of the book. How does the audiobook fit into the book
family? How is the role of reading changing in the light of digital
developments? Does the book still deserve a privileged place in
society? The authors present a dynamic model of the book and how it
lives on in today's competitive media environment.
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