Basic economic indicators of book publishing

Clark's Publishing Agreements: A Book of Precedents

Student diScount order Form 2016/17 Clark’s Publishing Agreements: A Book of Precedents, Ninth Edition is a comprehensive compendium of model agreements for just about every contract needed in the publishing industry. From general author agreements, via merchandising rights to online licensing, you’ll find it all in this essential resource. Students will benefit from: • Guidance on how to draft...

What I've Learned about Publishing a Book

Understanding end-users in academic book publishing

the article reviews ways that commissioning editors in academic book publishing can better understand the end users of their products. It discusses issues in resourcing market research in publishing companies, before going on to look at some of the existing internal and external sources that commissioning editors can draw on. It then considers both qualitative and quantitative ways of testing a...

The Future of Scholarly Book Publishing in Political Theory

I n 1995, I wrote an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education outlining the problems of publishing scholarly books in literary criticism and explaining why the Penn State University Press could no longer afford to remain active in this field. Of the 150 books about literature the Press had put out in the previous decade, 65% had sold fewer than 500 copies, 91% fewer than 800 copies, and on...

Clark's Publishing Agreements: A Book of Precedents, 9th edn

happy band of 22 contributors and organizations have collaborated in the production of a new edition of Clark's Publishing Agreements, this time the 9th. It is a true tour de force from key people in the publishing industry and is an example of both a supreme team effort and generosity of publishing spirit, with all royalties going to the Book Trade Charity. Although the 8th edition was only pu...