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General and Industry Overviews

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textbook

http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/766.html

http://www.hoovers.com/book-publishers/--ID__188--/free-ind-fr-profile-basic.xhtml

  • Statistics
    • Bogart, D. ed., 2008. The Bowker Annual 2008: Library and Book Trade Almanac 53rd ed., Information Today.

Overview of the Publishing Industry

  • U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2005. College Textbooks: Enhanced Offerings Appear to Drive Recent Price Increases, U.S. Government Accountability Office. Available at: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-05-806 [Accessed March 12, 2009].

Institutes and Information centers:

Associations

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Association Directors

Blogs Posts

Books

  • Abel, R. & Newlin, L.W., 2002. Scholarly Publishing: Books, Journals, Publishers, and Libraries in the Twentieth Century, New York: Wiley.
  • Epstein, J., 2002. Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future, New York: W. W. Norton.
  • Greco, A.N., 1997. The Book Publishing Industry, Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
  • Greco, A.N., Rodriguez, C.E. & Wharton, R.M., 2007. The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century, Stanford, Calif: Stanford Business Books.

Journals

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Other Resources

Possible cases:

http://exchange.westlaw.com/

OERs:

  • McGill, L. et al., 2008. Good intentions: improving the evidence base in support of sharing learning materials, Available at: http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/265/ [Accessed March 16, 2009].

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