The impact of print-on-demand on academic books / Suzanne Wilson-Higgins.

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TextLanguage: English Series: Chandos information professional seriesPublication details: Cambridge, MA, United States : Chandos Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier, 2018.Description: xiii, 201 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmISBN:

9780081020111
9780081020197 (online)

Subject(s): DDC classification:

070.579 23 WIL

Contents:

Cover image Title page Table of Contents Copyright Preface Acknowledgements Why read this book? Part One: Convergence and two decades of print-on-demand innovation 1995–2015 Introduction to part 1 1: Book pre-press for on-demand printing Abstract 1.1 Digital composition 1.2 Digital workflow management systems 1.3 The on-demand book digital workflow 2: Digital print and book manufacturing on-demand Abstract 3: Bookselling on-demand Abstract 4: Book fulfilment on-demand Abstract Part Two: Normalised, commoditised, and adopted, print-on-demand for books today (2015–17) Introduction to part 2 5: Monographs on-demand Abstract 5.1 User preferences for print and keeping print available 5.2 Print-on-demand’s positive contribution to the economics of the monograph 6: Textbooks on-demand Abstract 7: Book aggregators, archives and collections on-demand Abstract Part Three: Forecasts and trends for print-on-demand in academic book publishing Introduction to part 3 8: Trends in academic book publishing that impact on-demand Abstract 9: Trends in book manufacturing on-demand Abstract 10: On-demand book publishing trends Abstract Appendix 1 Survey results from Library Juice (Litwin Press) survey March 2017 Appendix 2 Questionnaire for interviewees Questionnaire from Suzanne Wilson-Higgins Bibliography References Index

Summary: The convergence of online book selling, digital printing, digital document workflow management and the computerization of small parcel logistics created a unique opportunity to create a viable commercial model for printing and supplying books on demand. This innovation was swiftly embraced by the academic publishing community heralding the rescue of the languishing academic monograph. The possibilities captured the imagination of creative academic and niche publishers enabling custom publishing, student editions of monographs, self-compiled wiki books and even the establishment of new university presses and open access publishers. This work takes an in-depth look at this phenomenon by looking back on two decades of innovation.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgements
Why read this book?
Part One: Convergence and two decades of print-on-demand innovation 1995–2015
Introduction to part 1
1: Book pre-press for on-demand printing
Abstract
1.1 Digital composition
1.2 Digital workflow management systems
1.3 The on-demand book digital workflow
2: Digital print and book manufacturing on-demand
Abstract
3: Bookselling on-demand
Abstract
4: Book fulfilment on-demand
Abstract
Part Two: Normalised, commoditised, and adopted, print-on-demand for books today (2015–17)
Introduction to part 2
5: Monographs on-demand
Abstract
5.1 User preferences for print and keeping print available
5.2 Print-on-demand’s positive contribution to the economics of the monograph
6: Textbooks on-demand
Abstract
7: Book aggregators, archives and collections on-demand
Abstract
Part Three: Forecasts and trends for print-on-demand in academic book publishing
Introduction to part 3
8: Trends in academic book publishing that impact on-demand
Abstract
9: Trends in book manufacturing on-demand
Abstract
10: On-demand book publishing trends
Abstract
Appendix 1
Survey results from Library Juice (Litwin Press) survey March 2017
Appendix 2
Questionnaire for interviewees
Questionnaire from Suzanne Wilson-Higgins
Bibliography
References
Index

The convergence of online book selling, digital printing, digital document workflow management and the computerization of small parcel logistics created a unique opportunity to create a viable commercial model for printing and supplying books on demand. This innovation was swiftly embraced by the academic publishing community heralding the rescue of the languishing academic monograph. The possibilities captured the imagination of creative academic and niche publishers enabling custom publishing, student editions of monographs, self-compiled wiki books and even the establishment of new university presses and open access publishers. This work takes an in-depth look at this phenomenon by looking back on two decades of innovation.

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