Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United StatesISBN: 978-0-7456-3477-7
Hardcover
480 pages
March 2005, Polity
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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