Here Comes The Book: Never Mind The Web: The Printed Book Is Alive And Kicking

Kovac, Dr. Miha

ISBN 10: 184334405X / ISBN 13: 9781843344056

Published by Chandos Pub, 2008

About this Item

1st edition. 180 pages. 9.13x5.91x0.63 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # zk184334405X

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Here Comes The Book: Never Mind The Web: The Printed Book Is Alive And Kicking
• Publisher: Chandos Pub
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184334405X
• ISBN 13: 9781843344056
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.3 kilograms

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Synopsis

This key book examines the role of the printed book in contemporary societies, its demographics and its relation to the other media. It analyzes the differences among various national book industries throughout Europe and the USA, and the reasons and impact of the differences. Both the effect of digital technologies and the reasons why e-books did not substitute the printed book, as predicted in mid-nineties, are explored.

About the Author

Before joining academia, Dr Miha Kovac was editorial director of Mladinska knjiga, the biggest publishing house in South-East Europe. Dr Kovac lectures at the Department for Library and Information Science and Book Studies, School of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford Brookes Centre for Publishing Studies and the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the Soros Foundation in various East-European countries. In 2005, he also became editor in chief of the Slovene edition of National Geographic Magazine.