Publishing Research Quarterly articles from January 1 2001

Publishing Research Quarterly archives from January 1 2001

Gutenberg and Today's Media Change.(Johannes Gutenberg)
January 1, 2001... I. Johannes Gutenberg and the Impact of his Invention The year 2000 is the 600th fictional birthday of Johannes Gutenberg. Even so, its celebrations had already started one year earlier when a board of American journalists elected the...

The Impact of Technology on Publishing.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Technology today more than ever has a disruptive impact on publishing. The Internet, printing-on-demand and the e-book are the main drivers of change, impacting all aspects of the publishing value chain--from the way books are published...

Publishing Training and Buchwissenschaft in Germany.
January 1, 2001... It seems typical for the United States that what could be called publishing science is very near to the practical and professional fields of book production and distributing. Also, it would be very near to the transformations that computer...

Publishing Education of China Faces the Challenge of Development.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... The paper investigates the development of education for the publishing industry in China in the past twenty years, with a focus on the middle and late 1990s. In the introduction, the overall situation of the publishing industry and book sales...

Translation and the Internationalization of Culture.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... The decades since World War II have witnessed the globalization of both commerce and culture. National businesses have been amalgamated into transnational or multinational corporations, and popular culture--whether music or movies--seems...

Do I Need Permission? Fair Use Rules under the Federal Copyright Law.
January 1, 2001... If the only materials that a Publisher included between the covers of a book were the independently created words of their authors, then permissions, licenses and the questions surrounding them would never arise. Ownership and control by...

Hat die wissenschaftliche Monographie noch eine Chance?(Transcript)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... The paper was first presented during the International Booksellers and Librarians Center Symposium, "Wissenstransfer und Wissensorganisation im 21. Jahrhunderd" during the Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany on October 22, 2000. Let me begin...

"What's Fair: The Problem of Equity in Journalism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... "What's Fair: The Problem of Equity in Journalism. By Robert Giles and Robert W. Snyder (eds.) New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000. 181 pp. ISBN 0-7658-0616-9. A few years ago in the middle of a Canadian winter, two hockey...

Casanova Was a Book Lover.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Casanova Was a Book Lover. By John Maxwell Hamilton. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 2000, 280 pp., illustrated, Hardcover. ISBN 0-8971-2554-7 $24.95 Casanova Was a Book Lover looks at the secret world of books--not...

Design Literacy (Continued): Understanding Graphic Design.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Design Literacy (Continued): Understanding Graphic Design. By Steven Heller. New York: Allworth, 1999. 278pp. Softcover: ISBN 99-042995, $19.95. This is the follow-up volume that Steven Heller co-authored as the art director at the New...

Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business. By Brad Alan Kleindl. South-Western College Publishing, 2000. 342 pp. Index, Hardcover, ISBN 0-324-01319-1 Forgive me, but I can't help but notice that Brad Kleindl's excellent book...

Introduction to Publishing Studies.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Introduction to Publishing Studies. By Shigeo Minowa. Japan Scientific Societies Press, Tokyo, 2000. 242 pp. Hardcover ISBN 4-7622-2943-1 Yen 6,190.00 Professor Minowa is best known to the English-language book community for his...