Never Mind the Web: Here Comes the Book (Chandos Series on Publishing) - Softcover

Kovac, Miha

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9781843344056: Never Mind the Web: Here Comes the Book (Chandos Series on Publishing)

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ISBN 10: 184334405X ISBN 13: 9781843344056

Publisher: Chandos Publishing, 2008

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Summary This key book examines the role of the printed book in contemporary societies, its demographics and its relation to the other media. It analyzes the differences among various national book industries throughout Europe and the USA, and the reasons and impact of the differences. Both the impact of digital technologies and the reasons why e-books did not substitute the printed book, as was predicted in mid-nineties, are examined. Key Features No other book up until now has provided a comprehensive overview of the diversities and similarities that exist among various national book industries and among various publishing fields throughout the developed world.The book will therefore be helpful both for those who are interested in understanding the globalization of media and for those publishers who conduct business across national borders The book analyzes the development of all book professions (librarians + booksellers + publishers) The book builds a link between research methodologies used in book history and on contemporary publishing research The book brings practical guidance on how book marketing and book content should be adapted to various local circumstances The book is based on a comparative approach. Up until now, all books on publishing industries analyzed a single book market or specific segments of publishing industries without trying to analyze them in a global context The Author Before joining academia, Dr Kovac was editorial director of Mladinska knjiga, the biggest publishing house in South-East Europe. Dr Kovac lectures at the Department for Library and Information Science and Book Studies, School of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford Brookes Centre for Publishing Studies and the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.He also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the Soros Foundation in various East-European countries. In 2005, he also became edi

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...enjoy this intelligent, proactive book for yourself., Springer Publishing Res. Quarterly
...this book is well worth reading and forms a valuable counterweight to much of the rapid tepid, conformist LIS literature., Library Review
Summarises effectively the intellectual development made possible by printing, and, in a useful comparison, shows how digital technology is causing a similar contemporary rupture both to the established printing industry, and to the world at large., The Electronic Library

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Before joining academia, Dr Miha Kovac was editorial director of Mladinska knjiga, the biggest publishing house in South-East Europe. Dr Kovac lectures at the Department for Library and Information Science and Book Studies, School of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford Brookes Centre for Publishing Studies and the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the Soros Foundation in various East-European countries. In 2005, he also became editor in chief of the Slovene edition of National Geographic Magazine.

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