Consolidation in publishing and allied industries

Robert Baensch documents and discusses the impact of consolidation, not only in publishing itself, but in printing, book distribution and government funding. He also analyzes the impact of declining enrollments in higher education and the growing competition that the video industry (and its concentration) poses to book publishing. Rather than despair, he urges, publishers must attempt to deal with these forces and shape the future. Robert E. Baensch is director of publishing for the American Institute of Physics. Formerly vice president of marketing, Macmillan Publishing Co., he is also chairman of the AAP’s Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Address for correspondence.     

Digital Publishing in Europe: a Focus on France,Germany, Italy and Spain

In this article we will provide a general overview of the situation of the digital publishing in Europe starting from the insights provided by the Editech conference, the international day of advanced study organized by the Italian Publishers Association and focused on the trends, perspectives and applications of technological innovation in publishing at an international level. It is the main Italian event dedicated to book publishing with the aim of helping publishers define their short- and medium-term digital strategies, while being aware of the opportunities and risks involved in the conversion to digital of their business model. The Editech 2010 main focus had been: the market and the national and international situation of digital publishing, the new buying and reading behaviors of consumers, e-books and content for e-readers and mobile devices, new production processes (XML, ePub, digital printing) and the distribution scenario and the diffusion of digital content.     

The computer and the print media

The computer offers extensive advantages over even the most advanced printing and information distribution technologies. Most important, it brings into the public compendium quantities of information too vast to be embodied in print. The computer has increased the power of societies, just as the printing press did. It also has the capacity to change our basic conception of reality and alter the power of the word. Because of its capacity to alter society, basic issues of access and privacy must be resolved as a new information infrastructure is created, comparable to that existing for print. Dan Lacy has been Assistant Archivist of the United States, Deputy Chief Assistant Librarian of Congress, head of the USIA overseas library and publishing program, managing director of the American Book Publishers Council, and senior vice president of McGraw-Hill, Inc.     

Publishing in Montenegro

Abstract

Publishing and printing in Montenegro are very much connected to the history of Montenegro and its people. The author discusses publishing in the territory until 1990, and then from 1991 to the present. Approximately 40 new, private publishers have emerged in the past decade. She discusses current major publishers, old and new, along with their profiles and recent notable titles. She then lists important periodicals. The article concludes with the hope that Montenegro will soon break out of its isolation and become a more integral part of the East European market for the printed word.     

出版社印制业务网上竞价与集中招标模式的探讨与应用

为实现出版社印制业务的规范发展，降本增效，文章分析了出版社印制业务招标与采购工作中存在的问题及其原因，探讨出版社印制业务网上竞价模式与联合体集中招标模式的应用，为新时期出版社的良性发展提供了有益的借鉴。     

Value Creation in the Publishing Industry: The Impact of Acquiring IT Services Firms Between 2002 and 2007

With the presence of online, digital content and new services for manipulating and searching it, printing and publishing firms may experience technological uncertainty and risk and diminishing profitability. Mergers and acquisitions are approaches for dealing with the current technology and market changes that are underway in the printing and publishing industry. Using an event study methodology and a sample of 60 U.S. printing and publishing firms, this study investigates the value creation of acquiring information technology (IT) services firms. The study's findings reveal that printing and publishing firms experience significant increases in their market values as a result of acquiring IT services firms. In fact, non-newspaper firms realize the largest increases in market value. The study's findings should help academicians and practitioners understand the kinds of strategic acquisitions from which printing and publishing firms are most likely to benefit.     

An approach to the history of publishing: Twentieth-century Quebec

To understand modern publishing, detailed historical studies must be undertaken of individual publishing houses, their leading figures, and their relationships with authors. Such studies, the authors argue, will permit us to understand how a publishing house establishes its identity. They describe in detail a research program based on these principles that is investigating literary publishing in Quebec. Translated by Larry Shouldice Richard Giguère, a literary scholar and critic, is a professor in the Department of Letters and Communications at the University of Sherbrooke. Jacques Michon, a professor in the Department of Letters and Communications at the University of Sherbrooke, is president of the Quebec Association for Studies in Publishing. M. Michon has written articles on the Quebec novel and publishing in the twentieth century, and is the author of two books,Mallarmé et les mots anglais andEmile Nelligan: les racines du rêve. Since 1982, he and Richard Giguère have directed the Research Group on Quebec Literary Publishing. Address for correspondence     

Mergers and acquisitions of professional and scholarly publishers: A contrarian view

J. Kendrick Noble seeks the reasons for mergers and acquisitions in schlarly and professional publishing in the desire for market penetration and growth. He also offers a forecast about how long the current wave of merger activity is likely to last. J. Kendrick Noble, Jr., is first vice president of PaineWebber, Inc. and a leading analyst of the publishing industry. Address for correspondence     

中国古代活字印刷术新论（下）

活字印刷在古代中国没有像古代朝鲜和中世纪末期欧洲那样成为文献复制方式的主流,与其自身的特点以及中国封建社会的经济、社会、文化和学术环境相关。活字技术适合一次性印刷大批量书籍,不如雕版技术适合长线印刷。中国地域广袤,除中央机构刻印书籍外,地方印书业也比较发达,官府、书院、私人等都刻印或覆刻书籍,一次性印量有限,多采用雕版技术长线印刷。古代朝鲜在学习了中国的活字印刷技术之后,与其社会特点与需要相结合,得到了广泛应用。古代朝鲜中央设立书籍院,铸造活字,统一负责图书印刷并发放至地方,活字技术正好适合大批量图书的印刷。与同时期中国封建社会环境不同的是,15世纪中叶德国人谷腾堡发明铅合金活字时,正值欧洲宗教改革和工业革命的前夜,活字印刷适应了文艺复兴和宗教改革运动对文献印刷和传播的需要,社会结构、工商业环境、资本市场的变化以及出版企业化等因素,推动了活字印刷在欧洲的广泛应用和迅速发展。活字印刷术虽然在中国古代并未成为图书出版的主流,但它仍在传播文化领域发挥了重要的作用,与雕版印刷术一道,构成了中华民族对全人类最伟大的贡献之一。参考文献22。     

Global publishing in the 1990s

Publishing education must prepare students to work productively in the industry as it will operate in future decades. Robert J. Jachino looks at the challenges we can expect from globalization in the 1990s and discusses a number of limitations on that process which are of interest not only to publishing educators but to practicing publishers. Robert J. Jachino is president and chief executive officer of the Thomson Information—Publishing Group. He began his publishing career with Allyn & Bacon and has held positions with Addison-Wesley, Harper & Row, Benzinger-Bruce, Glencoe, Fearon Pittman and Bowmar/Noble. He has been with the International Thomson Organization since 1980.     

Restructuring the publishing industry: New technology,new jobs,and a new curriculum

Major changes in the publishing industry demand a reassessment of the way publishing is taught. This article discusses changes in technology, internationalization, organization, and context, along with implications for the purpose of publishing education, its objectives, and scope. Ralph Hancox, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of the Reader’s Digest Association (Canada) Ltd., has been with the corporation since 1967. A graduate of the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Mr. Hancox is chairman of the National Association of Major Mail Users, a governor of the Conseil du Patronat du Québec, a director of the Quebec Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing Society. Mr. Hancox acknowledges the assistance of Jeanmarie Gélinas, Charles W. Magill, and James Hayes.     

The Sale and Purchase of Translation Rights in the Italian Market

What are the conditions of the sales and purchases of translation rights in the Italian Market? The article summarizes and compares the results of two research studies conducted, respectively in 2003 and 2008 by the Italian Trade Commission as part of the initiatives planned in the Sector agreement stipulated among the Italian Ministry for Productive Activity, the Italian Publishing Association and the Italian Trade Commission. The objective is to optimize synergies between public and private activities in Italy in order to increase the export activity of the publishing industry sector. Both years the survey has been conducted by DOXA, a major Italian statistic research company. The researches focused on three fundamental variables: the geographical area in which a sales-purchases relationship is established, the genre of the books and the size of the companies involved by the phenomenon.     

Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records

‘It's important that we remember the past is not just dry facts and statistics but also the detailed lives of real people. SAPPHIRE aims to give a voice to these lives.’ The Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE), an initiative with Napier University as lead and Queen Margaret University College as main collaborative partner, is an oral history project which aims to record the social, economic and cultural heritage of the Scottish printing and publishing industry in the 20th century. Undertaken in partnership with a number of Scottish organizations, its results are providing a better understanding of an important and overlooked part of Scotland's heritage. Outcomes of the project include a permanent oral history archive stored at the Edward Clark Collection at Napier University, and exhibitions and publications on the history of the printing and publishing industry. The development and current activities of SAPPHIRE are described and reviewed.     

The publishing industry and the single European market

True European integration cannot occur without developing a common cultural base that preserves diversity. An analysis of the present European publishing market and the involvement to date of the European Community in publishing sheds light on the likely impact of European unity on the industry. The book is the main force of European culture, and European publishing is healthy. To protect and enhance this vitality, the European Community must promote coordination with regard to author/publisher relations, adaptation of book distribution channels, book pricing, taxation, libraries, promotion of reading, foreign trade, control of illicit reprography, and development of information and research relevant to publishing and the book. Germán Sánchez Ruipérez is founder, chairman and CEO of Grupo Anaya and CEO of America Publishing Group. He heads the Committee on Reading of the International Publishers Association and the Ibero-American Chapter of the International Group of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers.     

A Look Inside the Development of POD in China’s Book Publishing Industry

This article focuses on the POD services for the publishing industry from 2000 to 2016 in China, by looking at some key numbers and introducing several companies and publishers who have invested in the POD business, looking at their business models, advantages and disadvantages. Also this article will share some first-hand information and ideas from people in both the publishing and printing industries.     

近现代画报印刷技术变迁

文章研究我国近现代画报的印刷技术发展。从清末至新中国成立初期，我国画报印刷技术经历了雕刻木版水印、石印、金属凸版、凹印和平版胶印五个阶段，印版和承印物的接触方式从平压平发展到圆压平，再到圆压圆，印版材料不断革新，印刷速度和耐印力逐步提升。不断发展的印刷技术丰富了画报出版的图像元素，为我国出版业的蓬勃发展打下了坚实基础。     

How to value your publishing business

The author offers a formula for valuing a publishing business based on net sales and the nature of the business (e.g., scientific and technical versus mass-market paperback). Further factors to be considered are the history of profitability, future profitability, the balance sheet, staff, and fit between the company being bought and the purchaser’s existing business. Martin P. Levin, Esq., is counsel to the New York law firm of Cowan, Liebowitz and Latman, where he specializes in mergers and acquisitions in the publishing industry. He was admitted to the Bar in 1984 after having served as president, book publishing, of the Times Mirror Company for seventeen years, acquiring and supervising publishing subsidiaries.     

因特网时代的编辑和出版特色

全方位地总结了因特网时代的编辑和出版特色。认为在因特网时代，编辑工作的特色是，编辑人员除了本职工作还必须具有熟练使用计算机的技能和网上冲浪的本领。出版的特色则是，网络出版更新了传统出版的观念，为出版业带来了新的印刷和发行方式，也为出版管理和出版立法提出了新的课题。