Publishing as a vocation
Subtitle: studies of an old occupation in a new technological era
By: Irving Louis Horowitz
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781412811101
Subjects: Publishers and publishing; History; Scholarly publishing; Political aspects; Economic aspects; Technological innovations; Communication in learning and scholarship; Communication and technology; Transaction Publishers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Publishing challenges in the new century; title: Technological rabbits and communication turtles; title: Tripartite nature of university presses; title: Limits of standardization in scholarship; title: Publishing, property, and information structures; title: Specialization in the electronic world; title: Social science and scholarly communication; title: Open access and closed minds; title: Professional ambitions and public interests; title: Formatting ideology through tabloid politics; title: Scholarly pornography; title: Publishing programs and political dilemmas; title: Political periodicals in policy formation; title: Monopolization of publishing and crisis in education; title: Publishing responses to economic crisis; title: Publishing as a vocation: the necessity of independence.