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http://exchange.westlaw.com/
http://exchange.westlaw.com/
* Flat World Knowledge
** http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/03/24/startup-challenges-textbook-industry-open-source-commercial-titles
** http://news.infibeam.com/blog/news/2008/07/17/flat_world_knowledge_challenges_textbook_industry.html
* Amazon Kindle
** http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/17/amazon-to-target-55-billion-textbook-market-with-new-kindle/
* Wikibooks
** http://news.cnet.com/Wikibooks-takes-on-textbook-industry/2100-1025_3-5884291.html


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Revision as of 02:31, 30 March 2009

Educational and Scholarly Materials Related Links

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

http://www.nacs.org/public/industry.asp

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

Overview of the Publishing Industry

Institutes and Information centers:

Associations

National

State

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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