Power Over Publishing:

publishing wars in the age of the e-book


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, 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 and a framework for e-book and e-reader growth and history.


Power Over Publishing is for anyone interested in the cultural and industrial clash between print and electronic books, as well as for academic researchers of publishing, new media and power.

 













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 Arts Humanities and Research Board from 2003 to 2006.