The Book Liberation Manifesto is an exploration of publishing outside of current corporate constraints and beyond the confines of book piracy. We believe that knowledge should be in free circulation to benefit humankind, which means an equitable and vibrant economy to support publishing, instead of the prevailing capitalist hand-me-down system of Sisyphean economic sustainability. Readers and b...

Seeks to cover interdisciplinary research topics on book and digital media history culture, including historiography, traditional publishing, literacy reading, printed heritage etc. Indexed in the Scopus database from 2018.

Digitization has given creators direct access to consumers as well a plethora of new data for suppliers products draw on. We study how this affects market efficiency in the context book publishing. Using on about 50,000 license deals over more than 10 years, we identify effects digitization from quasi-experimental variation across types. Consistent with generating additional information predict...