出版经济要闻

中国出版集团起航 据国内多家大型和出版专业媒体报道,中国出版业的航空母舰—中国出版集团于4月9日正式起航。集团由人民出版社、人民文学出版社、商务印书馆、中华书局、中国大百科全书出版社、中国美术出版社、人民音乐出版社、生活·读书·新知三联书店、中国对外翻译出版公司、东方出版中心和新华书店总店、中国出版对外贸易总公司、中国图书进出口(集团)总公司等13家大型企事业单位组成,属事业性质,实行企业化管理。集团现有员工5000余人,总资产50亿元人民币,2001年销售收入达25亿元人民币。集团将在两到三年时间内完成内部资源整合、结     

出版经济要闻

十六大报告强调发展文化产业深化文化体制改革 据《中国图书商报》报道,江泽民总书记在十六大报告中强调要积极发展文化事业和文化产业,继续深化文化体制改革,抓紧制定文化体制改革的总体方案。报告中提山全面建设小康社会必须大力发展社会主义文化,建设社会主义精神文明。     

出版经济要闻

新闻出版业5家集团销售收入达到500强企业规模,家庭期刊集团等4家单位销售利润率排在前10名内 据《中国新闻出版报》报道,根据新闻出版总署对全国报送的31家出版、报业、发行、期刊集团2002年的销售收入、资产总额、所有者权益、利润和从业人数5个指标统计与我国500强大型企业的对比分析,新闻出版业部分集团已具有相当经济规模和实力。从销售收入看,江苏出版集团(排156位)、山东出版集团(排174位)、浙江省出版联合集团(排     

传承出版文化优秀遗产 推动出版事业繁荣发展

<中国出版通史>九卷本今天出版,这不仅是出版界的一件大事,也是文化界和学术界的一件喜事.集近200位专家学者之力,历时整整8年才告完成的这部史学学术著作,无论是在保存、研究、弘扬中华民族的传统文化方面,还是在传承中国出版优秀遗产方面,都意义重大.出版业本身是个小行业,但它涉及到整个中国.几千年的历史涉及到文化史、文明史、科技史、经济史、没有这些东西,出版史自己是写不出来的,所以它是一个庞大的系统工程.     

Books and publishing

RECIPES FOR READING: COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS, STORIES, HISTORIES edited by Anne L. Bower (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997‐$45.00, ISBN 1–558–49088–4, 271 pp., photographs, bibliographical references)

FROM A SINGLE WINDOW: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PRESS, 1947–1997 by Maurice Hungiville (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998‐no price available, ISBN 0–8701–3429–9, 150 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, index)

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT: ACCESS IN THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY edited by Maureen Pastine (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1997–149.95, ISBN 0–7890–0385–6, 225 pp., bibliographies), is an uneven collection of contributed essays co‐published as a special issue of the journal Collection Management (22: 1–2, 1997).

SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER edited by Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996‐price not given, ISBN 0–262–16157–5, 363 pp., notes, index)     

A publishing genealogy

Christopher Hurst started his own publishing company after learning how to acquire and sell books by working with various publishers.     

我国数字出版标准化现状及对策

数字出版标准化是数字出版各个环节和相关行业为了实现最佳秩序而对数字出版发展中实际的或潜在的问题制定共同的和可重复使用的条款的活动.数字出版标准化有利于数字出版链条上的参与各方实现利益均衡,分工合作,整体降低成本,用有限的资源实现效益的最大化,实现技术兼容、数字内容的互联互通和共享.     

Teaching publishing in France

In France, publishing education has developed through the efforts of industry, labor, the universities, technical schools, and government agencies. This article reviews the history of publishing education and describes current postgraduate programs. The bibliography lists the basic French periodicals that cover publishing. Nadia Laham received an M.A. in French Studies from Carleton University. She continued her studies at the Information and Communication Sciences Institute at the University of Bordeaux III, where she completed her doctoral thesis on the evolution of book production as an indicator of sociocultural mentality. She currently works for the Department of Communications, Canada, in the area of book publishing policy.     

Priorities for publishing research

The author suggests a wide-ranging research agenda, including applying and safeguarding copyright, increasing literacy, comparing the appropriate uses of the printed word and other media, understanding language itself, assisting authors to get their work into print, improving statistics about the industry, predicting the future of suppliers as well as publishers themselves, improving distribution, and influencing the likely future of the information superhighway. J. Kendrick Noble was formerly publishing industry analyst for Paine Webber, Inc.