review of John B. Thompson, Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States (Polity Press, 2005)

review highlighting Thompson's use of social theory (especially Pierre Bourdieu) to illuminate the transformation of publishing both scholarly monographs and college textbooks on both British and U.S. markets since 1980

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Work Title review of John B. Thompson, Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States (Polity Press, 2005)
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Creators
  1. Sanford G. Thatcher
Keyword
  1. college textbooks
  2. university presses
  3. ebooks
  4. scholarly monographs
License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
Work Type Other
Publisher
  1. University of Toronto Press
Publication Date January 2006
Subject
  1. University presses
  2. Scholarly monograpghs
  3. ebooks
  4. College textbooks
Language
  1. English
Publisher Identifier (DOI)
  1. 37/2: 148-153
Geographic Area
  1. University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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