Power Over Publishing:

publishing wars in the age of the e-book


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This detailed critical study analyzes the growth of trade e-books and associated technologies over the last decade of their commercial growth. In examining the motives and operations of the trade book sector (80% controlled by corporations), the author discusses how e-book developments reflect power arrangements in both publishing and the wider media, entertainment and cultural industries.


Power Over Publishing examines the past and recent historical foundation to e-publishing products and markets, providing systemic reasons within a theoretical framework for why e-books and e-readers have developed so slowly.


Power Over Publishing is ideal for anyone interested in the cultural and industrial clash between print and electronic books, as well as for academics and researchers of the subject of power.


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POWER OVER PUBLISHING

table of contents


PUBLISHING IN DIGITAL CRISIS   5

 

E-BOOKS: THE FIRST PHASE 1998-2004     11

EMPATHIES AND ANTIPATHIES 1998-1999

THE E-FRENZY OF 2000                                                 

PARADIGM HIATUS 2001

LEAN TIMES 2002-2004


STRATEGIC COMPETITION       45

CORPORATE STRATEGIES                                            

20TH CENTURY SUPPRESSION OF MEDIA                      

AM VS FM AND THE DELAY OF TELEVISION                    

ABSORPTION OF RIVALS                                               

MURDOCH VS GEMSTAR


LEGAL STRATEGIES OF CONTROL     71

COPYRIGHT IN THE DIGITAL ERA  

COPYRIGHT OR COPY THEFT?

DMCA – ANTI-CONSUMER LAW?

FAIR USE & FIRST SALE

THE LIMITS OF PIRACY


POWER IN CULTURE       97

POWER AND ENTERTAINMENT

THE RESTORATION OF OLD MEDIA

CONTENT VS. CONNECTIVITY

GOOGLING BOOKS


POWER IN PUBLISHING        123

MOORE SIDESTEPS MURDOCH

PATTEN STALEMATES HARPERCOLLINS

THE CORPORATIONS & E-BOOKS

THE E-BOOK MESSAGE



Bibliography   157

Endnotes    178


The writer:


Richard Guthrie PhD, a researcher and writer on print and electronic publishing, has followed New Media developments

for over a  decade. Currently, he is writing a book for Sage Publications on Anglo-American publishing.


This research received the support of the UK Art Humanities and Research Board from 2003 to 2006.