We study the distribution dynamics of the demand for books in Italy. We find that for each of three broad sub-markets in which the book publishing industry can be classified − Italian novels, foreign novels and essays − sales over a three-year sample can be adequately fitted by a power law distribution. Our results can be plausibly interpreted in terms of a model of interactions among buyers ex...

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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...

Feminist Book Fortnight was a signal event in the history of feminist publishing, but its has not yet been written. Throughout latter half 1980s, promoted literature UK and Ireland helped to sustain power revolution publishing. Drawing on archives Spare Rib magazine, this article analyses often fierce tension between Fortnight’s activist aims commercial imperatives, maps out distinctive regiona...

Although the USA, Canada, UK, and Australia currently retain territorial copyright laws, with commensurate restrictions on parallel, importation of books, advances in digital technology, and the advent of e-books have caused an involuntary migration of the book across these defined borders. This changing publishing sphere has impacted authors’ copyright protection, with authors struggling to co...

dual spacization of publishing means emergence of digital publishing in online and offline virtual environments along with analogue publishing. analogue publishing is a kind of publishing that is produced in the form of physical printed writings as they appear in a single paper, single or many pages newspapers and magazines and books, writings on leaves and pieces of trees, natural skin and lea...

The Russian publishing market is analyzed from the library’ perspective, as book and distribution dynamics, including both trends in distributing different formats through various channels technologies, affect significantly library collection development. following problems are indicated: 1) completeness accessibility of information on scientific literature being published; 2) procurability. an...

In June of 2010, the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSSM) were introduced in the U.S. Long before the advent of the CCSSM, American schools had a de facto national mathematics curriculum, namely, the curriculum dictated by school mathematics textbooks. While there are some formal differences among these books, the underlying mathematics is quite similar throughout. The resulting c...

This paper describes our experiments with unsupervised methods for back-of-the-book index construction. Through comparative evaluations performed on a gold standard data set of 29 books and their corresponding indexes, we draw conclusions as to what are the most accurate unsupervised methods for automatic index construction. We show that if the right sequence of methods and heuristics is used, ...