.... Originality/value These findings may support the work of early-career researchers and those individuals (e.g., librarians) that serve them, as well as publishers and editors of scholarly journals. Analysis of the previous studies conducted to date leads to their continuation and to an answer...

...Vincas Grigas; Arūnas Gudinavičius Purpose Book piracy represents a threat to the publishing industry, while for the society, book piracy provides some benefits. The purpose of this study is to examine views of readers, authors and publishers in Lithuania on book piracy’s benefits to society...

... Sciences Publishing Citation indexes Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, new universities and colleges have been established in Iran. Two Ministries (Science, Research and Technology, and Health, Treatment and Medical Education) are responsible for non‐medical and medical higher education...

...Radovan Vrana Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from the research of aspects of journal publishing in the field of social sciences in Croatia in changing working conditions caused by the rapid development of information and communication technology. Design/methodology...

...M. E. Burke; Sheila Ray As I was a child and an avid reader at the time the firm was in existence, I would have expected to remember seeing and reading some of the books that Peter Lunn published but although one or two of the book covers (these constitute most of the illustrations) and some...

.... The purpose of this paper is to look at the role of the Documentation Centre and the benefits of the regional ISBN agency in managing the group code, 976, to the Caribbean region. This paper will illustrate book publishing challenges in the region, explain the use of ISBNs, describe the role of the regional...

...Jonathan Bengtson This is the twenty‐ninth volume of the “Publishing pathways” series, which has become an established and key resource for studies in the history of the book, publishing, the book trade and libraries. Each of the volumes in the series is comprised of a series of original essays...

...William Baker Leslie   Howsam . Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain, 1850‐1950 . London and Toronto : The British Library and University of Toronto Press   2009 . xvi + 182 pp. , ISBN: ISBN British Library 978‐0‐7123‐5027‐3; University of Toronto Press 978‐1...

...Sheila Ray Owen   Dudley Edwards . British Children's Fiction in the Second World War (Societies at War) . Edinburgh University Press , 2009 . 752 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 978‐0‐7486‐16503   £29.99 (pbk) 11 b&w illustrations © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010...

... $65.00, Euros 47.64 (hbk) ISBN 978‐1‐58456‐224‐5 (Oak Knoll Press) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Advertising Ephemera Printing industry Publishing History Ephemera have shifted from being scarcely noticed and collected to being avidly examined and researched...

...Sheila Ray For a book so densely packed with facts, Print for Victory: Book Publishing in England 1939‐1945 is surprisingly readable and I enjoyed coming across some of the information that is included. I have recently been recalling my schoolgirl memories of Kathleen Winsor's...

... of multi‐institutional consortia. However, the interest in managing publisher payment fees at national level can be taken to imply one mighty big assumption. This is the assumption that the APOA publication model is a straightforwardly good thing, in the same way that well managed e‐journal purchasing...

...Stuart Hannabuss Craig   Kallendorf . The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe . Aldershot and Burlington, VT : Ashgate Variorum from Ashgate Publishing   2007 . xiv + 304 pp. (original article pagination) , ISBN: ISBN 978‐0‐7546...

...John Azzolini Joost   Kist . New Thinking for 21st‐century Publishers: Emerging Patterns and Evolving Stratagems . Oxford : Chandos   2009 . 164 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 84334 445 9   £ 39.95 (paperback) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Publishers...

...Daniela Petrelli; Hazel Wright Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a study set up to investigate and map the landscape of digital writing today. A holistic perspective has been adopted involving writers, readers and publishers alike. Design/methodology/approach The research uses...

... press, the role of patronage changed. Research limitations/implications Analyses an era in the history of book publishing in England and should be of interest to scholars of Medieval England, and publishing and library history. Originality/value Provides a review of patronage in an important era...

... Law for Marketers , Butterworth Heinemann , Oxford/Amsterdam . Hugh , J. and Christopher , B. (2002), Publishing Law , 2nd ed. , Routledge , London/New York , NY . It is easy, also, to expect more from a book than it set out to deliver. Baverstock keeps her focus...

...Stuart Hannabuss In the introduction the editors argue that the nineteenth‐century was a time of expansion and the twentieth a time of contraction and specialization. Elsewhere we read of fragmentation in Scottish publishing and bookselling. The final section considers the future of the book...

...William Baker © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> All in all then, Miller and Price have produced an invaluable reference tool that will have a lengthy shelf‐life – at least while there are books around! There are inevitably some misprints. The sturdily bound volume is designed...

...Stuart Hannabuss Valerie   Gray . Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer . Aldershot and Burlington, VT : Ashgate   2006 . xxi + 233 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 0‐7546‐5219‐X   £50.00 US$99.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Publishing History...