Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States

Preface.

Introduction.

Part I The Publishing Business.

Publishing as an economic and cultural practice.

The social structure of publishing fields.

The publishing field since 1980.

Part II The Field of Academic Publishing.

Academic publishing under pressure.

Academic publishing in transition (1): changing organizational cultures.

Academic publishing in transition (2): list diversification and field migration.

Academic publishing at the crossroads.

Part III The Field of Higher Education Publishing.

Higher education publishing in the US (1): the formation of the field.

Higher education publishing in the US (2): the differentiation of the field.

Higher education publishing in the UK.

Globalization and localization in the UK field of higher education publishing.

Part IV The Digital Revolution.

The digital revolution and the publishing world.

Academic publishing and the digital revolution.

Higher education publishing and the digital revolution.

The hidden revolution: reinventing the life cycle of the book.

Conclusion.

Appendix on research methods.

Bibliography.

Index.