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Book piracy is an illegal and illegitimate reproduction of other people's intellectual property for economic reasons without prior consent or authorization. This paper examines the intricate dimension of book piracy in the Nigerian Publishing Industry. It notes the dangers the trend portends to qualitative education and scholarship in general. The paper identifies the different forms of book piracy as: local reproduction of fast moving titles using newsprint or poor textured paper, abuse of publication rights, hi-tech reproduction overseas, circumventing the e-book version, illegal reprography, unauthorized excessive production by printers, and translation without permission. Some of the causes of book piracy are poverty, book scarcity, ignorance of the copyright laws by the public and the uncooperative attitude of some countries in endorsing international treaties on intellectual property rights. The paper recommends the following as panacea to stemming the tide of the menace: cost reduction strategies, national book policy and commissioning of local authorship, awareness and enforcement of copyright laws, revitalization of libraries, sanctions on countries showing complacency towards piracy, special algorithms to detect illegal downloads, security printing devices and moral suasion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose/Thesis: The article characterizes the research on the global book publishing market to determine the extent of its interdisciplinarity. Approach/Methods: This article uses quantitative and qualitative analysis of selected academic papers, discipline profiles of their authors and of the journals to investigate which subject area dominate in scientific output of researchers and to establish the relationship between publishing studies and other disciplines on the field of the global book market. In order to prove the relatedness of journals bibliometric methods (co-citation, bibliographic coupling analysis of sources) and knowledge visualization technologies will be used. Results and conclusions: The selected papers focused on book history and book culture, economics and technological aspects of book publishing, and users' attitudes and preferences. The authors published in journals associated with disciplines such as media & communication studies and education (Publishing Research Quarterly, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Learned Publishing), book studies (Logos) and information studies (Electronic Library, Journal of Documentation). In Corpus 1 (C1) there were co-cited trade magazines and academic journals on library and information science, in Corpus 2 (C2) - academic journals mostly focused on marketing and economics. Co-authored publications constituted 42% of C1 and 63% of C2. The study showed that the research of the global book publishing market is led by interdisciplinary researchers, but rarely by international teams. Research limitations: The initial corpus of academic papers was narrowed down to 230 articles published in English between 2001 and 2018. The study did not include articles focusing on book markets in the countries that make only slight contributions to the global book publishing industry. The discipline classification adopted in the study follow that of the Scopus database. Originality/Value: This study provides insight into the research on the global publishing market and proves that it is interdisciplinary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes how technological change and digitalization in the Spanish publishing sector is challenging existing business models and encouraging publishers to modify their portfolios of products and competencies. A qualitative analysis (case study) of three Spanish publishers is carried out. The practical implications of the research are that digital products and services are still considered secondary to the analog book. On the other hand, the proportion of titles available in digital formats is still small. To all this, the lack of a common dominant design for digital publication is added, which represents an uncertainty for editors, to which must be added the lack of institutional support. For the time being, Spanish publishers are simply selling digital versions of their paper books on digital distribution platforms, trying to minimize risks by betting on positively contrasted works in the traditional paper-based business model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The remarkable growth of social media has proven to influence the publishing industry. Social media has become an important marketing tool for publishers and booksellers, and it has been increasingly used by customers and readers. The objective of this paper is to explore the role of social media in the customer decision-making process with regard to the purchase of books. Data were obtained from 313 customers of major bookstores in Vietnam. The results demonstrate that the majority of customers use social media to gather user-generated content, such as customer reviews and comments, and information about promotions. They also reveal that social media provides the buyers emotional values including fun and the feeling of engagement with the related buying community. Moreover, customers believe that social media plays an important role in the post purchase stage as its allow customers to share their opinions and experiences with others. The findings of this study provide important implications for publishers and book distributors both domestically and internationally. These findings would assist them in developing and implementing effective social media marketing strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the advent of the Internet, we have entered into the information age, which makes it possible and easier to obtain a large number of representatives data. On the other hand, with the rapid improvement of computer hardware, and software especially the computers speed, and the ability of the computer has been greatly improved. Data-driven and algorithm applications of modern artificial intelligence models have been widely used in various fields. Solving problems through machine learning has become a way of thinking that all industries are willing to study to reduce labor costs and improve processing efficiency. Beijing Formax Co., Ltd. takes advantage of its own data processing jobs to apply machine learning technology to some projects, and has achieved good results. This paper focuses on the application of artificial intelligence and Beijing Formax's knowledge service for the publishing industry in the era of big data including several typical cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Historical geographers increasingly address editorial networks as an important element in contextual and situated readings of knowledge production. Recent work has shown that large publishing houses, such as Murray in Britain, Hachette in France and Perthes in Germany, played a primary role in shaping geographical knowledge. This paper's contribution is an analysis of the collaboration between Élisée Reclus (1830–1905) and Hachette over the Nouvelle G é ographie universelle (NGU), a classic work in French geography that encompassed nineteen volumes between 1876 and 1894. Drawing upon archival sources, such as the published and unpublished correspondence between Reclus, his collaborators and the publishers, I argue that Reclus' negotiations with this mainstream publishing house were part of a political strategy that was deployed by early anarchist geographers to disseminate their views among broader audiences than just specialist and militant groups. This was a successful bargain for both sides, as there were approximately twenty thousand copies of each volume of the NGU printed. To understand this strategy of public communication and political influence, I examine the international group of anarchist geographers who were involved in Reclus' editorial endeavour within the wider context of Hachette's editorial networks. This involves situating the knowledge they produced in two locations: Paris, where Hachette's headquarters were established, and Clarens, the Swiss village to which Reclus was exiled, and where he worked with collaborators such as Pyotr Kropotkin and Léon Metchnikoff to establish the 'centre of calculation' for his large encyclopaedia. Highlights • Investigates the spaces, places and networks of Élisée Reclus' Nouvelle Géographie universelle. • Analyses the material workings and contexts of geographical research at Hachette's publishing house. • Clarifies the political significance of geography in nineteenth-century France. • Reconstructs a group of anarchist geographers and its place in the publishing industry in nineteenth-century Europe. • Shows the importance of both books and periodical print cultures in constructing geographical knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the repetition of prophecies on the end of the book, and changes in book production and reading demographics. The paper hypothesizes that in Western societies perceptions of the death of the book have been influenced by the greater mental demands of consuming textual media in comparison with their audiovisual counterparts. In order to understand how these different mental demands have influenced debates on the death of the book, the paper shows that the 20th century witnessed significant changes in book-reading demographics and book distribution which rather paradoxically correlated not only with the growth of audiovisual media and changes in educational demographics but also with the explosion of book consumption and production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers an original approach to examining the UK book-publishing industry over the past 30 years: as a case study within the context of boundaryless career theory. Boundaryless career theory has inspired a broad body of research but there is a research gap relating to its application in publishing. The paper considers how an industry that was largely boundaryless (with regular and often rapid transition of individuals between different organizations and functions), and was at the same time highly boundaried from external involvement (little penetrated by those without either previous connections or understanding), is now opening up to a range of external forces and personnel. This development has largely arisen from the digital revolution and the associated processes and practice of self-publishing. The paper considers the various existing stakeholders in the industry, and the impact that current changes may have on previous business models. Finally, it considers the transferable skills being gained by those acquiring publishing expertise and offers predictions about how these trends will impact on the publishing industry in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the role of local and global publishers within current Latin-American cultural production. The paper focuses on the editorial success of Cuban writer Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, as an example of global distribution of a dirty bestseller, and on the status achieved by cult Colombian writer Rubén Vélez, in order to examine the most significant tendencies in the local and global Latin-American publishing industry. Furthermore, it offers a reflection on the promotion and distribution of these authors through the houses that publish them: Anagrama (Barcelona) and Babilonia (Bogotá). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2014, Scotland will hold a referendum on whether to remain part of the United Kingdom or become an independent country. This article examines how a transition to independence might affect the publishing industry in Scotland. It addresses some of the key considerations for publishers facing the prospect of operating in a newly autonomous country, beginning with an overview of the current state of Scottish publishing, before presenting the most relevant points of the Scottish National Party's White Paper on Independence and the results of a PESTLE (political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental) analysis. Drawing on this information, it delineates the potential effects, both positive and negative, of independence on the Scottish publishing industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the trade data and three international competitiveness evaluation indexes, namely, international market share, trade competitive index and revealed comparative advantage index, this paper analyzes the international competitiveness of Chinese publishing industry from horizontal and vertical dimensions. The results show that, the international competitiveness of Chinese publishing industry is enhanced year by year. However, compared with the USA, the UK, Germany and other developed countries, it is still significantly weaker, and the gap between each other has the potential to expand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article includes an overview of the development of e-publishing in Estonia. The treatment is based on the analysis and comparison of existing research, mainly student papers; statistical data from the database of Statistics Estonia and the National Library of Estonia, articles in the periodical press and homepages of various institutions. The beginning of the article presents the description of the publishing industry during the 2000s. In accordance with the development of economy the book production has moved from the peak in the mid-2000s to recession in 2008-2010. The declining market led to the decrease in print runs (since 2008) and book title production (since 2010). The number of publishers, however, increased even during the crisis. The small-language market is of no interest to international companies, so the book industry works on local capital. Estonia is characterised by early adoption and wide use of the Internet. The web publishing by organisations, associations and individuals is widespread since mid 1990s, but commercial publishers remained aside of this trend. As in many other European countries, especially small countries, the publishers were uncertain about the application of copyright in the digital environment and technological skill gaps. These worries were largerly overcome by the establishment of e-publishing service providers in 2010, which led to the take off in the publishing of e-books. The number of e-books produced and the sales have increased a number of times, but their share of the book market is rather marginal. The book buyers and readers still hold to traditional book form. The official cultural policy, however, favours e-books and supports different projects that provide free access to Estonian classical literature and modern authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the state of the magazine industry in the US and offers research to show why publishers should shift their thinking from a print- or digital-first publishing strategy to a mobile-first publishing strategy. The publishing industry faces increasing challenges to generate a profit and grow their audience. These challenges are compounded by a difficult economy, the proliferation of new technological devices, and consumers’ changing reading habits. Mobile publishing offers new and expanding ways for the magazine industry to diversity income, expand readership, and position their titles for future growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The printed book in a hybrid environment is still a privileged medium. During recent decades, significant changes have taken place in the publishing industry worldwide. This paper looks into the structural organization of large publishing houses to offer a detailed examination of the editorial department and the role of the editor. Relevant literature is reviewed and empirical evidence is presented. Empirical research examined the organization of publishing companies and existing departments, focusing on the responsibilities of the editor and the editorial department. The survey took place in May to June 2010 and included all large publishing houses in Greece, i.e. those which publish over 80 titles annually. The survey found that the organization of these publishing companies is influenced most significantly by the their family-owned and -managed structure as well as by advances in information technology. Novel organizational entities for electronic production, promotion, distribution, and advertisement are making their presence felt. The editorial department remains important in this framework, and the editors are, among other things, responsible for book selection and list-building. However, the role of the editor in Greece, although significant, is often not clearly defined, and may even be underestimated, owing to the structure of the industry, the family-managed publishing companies, and the central role of the publisher. The Greek book-publishing industry remains small, limited by the number of Greek-speakers, and the results presented may be representative of small industries that furthermore face economic recession. This is one of very few studies providing theoretical and survey results for the organizational structure of publishing houses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article retrospectively analyzes the current situation of the development of China’s publishing industry and illustrates the scale, structure, new publication patterns, and characteristics of this industry. The results reveal that the continuous development of China’s publishing industry is manifested in the solid growth of traditional publishing and the rapid growth of non-paper-based publications. Digital and network technologies have become the critical foundations of the publishing industry, facilitating the expansion of the traditional publishing industry and the renewal of traditional productivity. Moreover, the dominance of books giving way to a more diversified publishing pattern. An industry chain primarily based on provinces is under construction, and the leading publishers are beginning to orient toward industrial development. The basic formation of a dual-capital system, funded both federally and privately, has accelerated the process of publishing socialization. In contrast to the previous system under the planned economy, this new system is demarcated into missions for information dissemination and the pursuit of profit, a fundamental change known as the ‘‘dichotomy pattern’’ that powerfully promotes the prosperity and advancement of China’s publishing industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]