| Description |
xx, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Bill Cope and Angus Phillips -- 2. If it isn't on the internet, it doesn't exist / Mark Perlman -- 3. Plus ca change ... print on demand reverts book publishing to its pre-industrial beginnings / Manfred H. Breede -- 4. Where is the value in publishing? The internet and the publishing value chain / Angus Phillips -- 5. Venues for vanity: methods and means of self-published books / Christopher Kular -- 6. Towards understanding patterns of book consumption in Europe / Mihael Kovac and Mojca Kovac Sebart -- 7. The future of reading as a cultural behaviour in a multi-channel media environment / Hillel Nossek and Hanna Adoni -- 8. Bookselling culture and consumer behaviour / Audrey Laing and Jo Royle -- 9. Diversity, or is it all the same? Book consumption on the internet in Sweden / Ann Steiner -- 10. New voices in the new millennium / David H. Lynn -- 11. Reviving the oral tradition: the evolution of audiobooks / Jennifer Cavender and Lisa Stuchell -- 12. Are you being served? Librarianship past, present and future / Maureen Brunsdale and Jennifer Hootman -- 13. Access, convergence and print on demand: the library dimension / John Feather -- 14. New text technologies, globalization and the future of the book / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis -- 15. A whiff of tobacco smoke on the page / Mark Woodhouse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Books -- Forecasting.
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Publishers and publishing -- Forecasting.
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| Author |
Cope, Bill.
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Phillips, Angus, 1961-
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| ISBN |
1843342413 (hbk.) |
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9781843342410 (hbk.) |
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1843342405 (paperback) |
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9781843342403 (paperback) |
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