Dr Bill Cope is Research Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA and Director of Common Ground Publishing. He is the co-author or editor of a number of books, including, with Angus Phillips, The Future of the Book in the Digital Age, also published by Chandos, in 2006. Angus Phillips is Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies and Head of the Publishing Department at Oxford Brookes University. He worked for a number of years as a non-fiction editor at Oxford University Press and now acts as a consultant to publishing companies in the UK and internationally.

…a very interesting collection of essays., Program…a facinating book, both stimulating and challenging for librarians as we anticipate our rapidly changing role in the face of revolutionary changes in the way information is delivered., Scottish Health Information Network

• Introduction; If it isn’t on the Internet, it doesn’t exist; Plus ça change … print on demand reverts book publishing to its pre-industrial beginnings; Where is the value in publishing? The Internet and the publishing value chain; Venues for vanity: methods and means of self-published books; Towards understanding patterns of book consumption in Europe; The future of reading as a cultural behaviour in a multi-channel media environment; Bookselling culture and consumer behaviour; Diversity, or is it all the same? Book consumption on the Internet in Sweden; New voices in the new millennium; Reviving the oral tradition: the evolution of audiobooks; Are you being served? Librarianship past, present and future; Access, convergence and print on demand: The library dimension; New text technologies, globalization and the future of the book; A whiff of tobacco smoke on the page.

Dr Bill Cope is Research Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA and Director of Common Ground Publishing. He is the co-author or editor of a number of books, including, with Angus Phillips, The Future of the Book in the Digital Age, also published by Chandos, in 2006. Angus Phillips is Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies and Head of the Publishing Department at Oxford Brookes University. He worked for a number of years as a non-fiction editor at Oxford University Press and now acts as a consultant to publishing companies in the UK and internationally.

…a very interesting collection of essays., Program…a facinating book, both stimulating and challenging for librarians as we anticipate our rapidly changing role in the face of revolutionary changes in the way information is delivered., Scottish Health Information Network

• Introduction; If it isn’t on the Internet, it doesn’t exist; Plus ça change … print on demand reverts book publishing to its pre-industrial beginnings; Where is the value in publishing? The Internet and the publishing value chain; Venues for vanity: methods and means of self-published books; Towards understanding patterns of book consumption in Europe; The future of reading as a cultural behaviour in a multi-channel media environment; Bookselling culture and consumer behaviour; Diversity, or is it all the same? Book consumption on the Internet in Sweden; New voices in the new millennium; Reviving the oral tradition: the evolution of audiobooks; Are you being served? Librarianship past, present and future; Access, convergence and print on demand: The library dimension; New text technologies, globalization and the future of the book; A whiff of tobacco smoke on the page.

Dr Bill Cope is Research Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA and Director of Common Ground Publishing. He is the co-author or editor of a number of books, including, with Angus Phillips, The Future of the Book in the Digital Age, also published by Chandos, in 2006. Angus Phillips is Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies and Head of the Publishing Department at Oxford Brookes University. He worked for a number of years as a non-fiction editor at Oxford University Press and now acts as a consultant to publishing companies in the UK and internationally.

…a very interesting collection of essays., Program…a facinating book, both stimulating and challenging for librarians as we anticipate our rapidly changing role in the face of revolutionary changes in the way information is delivered., Scottish Health Information Network

• Introduction; If it isn’t on the Internet, it doesn’t exist; Plus ça change … print on demand reverts book publishing to its pre-industrial beginnings; Where is the value in publishing? The Internet and the publishing value chain; Venues for vanity: methods and means of self-published books; Towards understanding patterns of book consumption in Europe; The future of reading as a cultural behaviour in a multi-channel media environment; Bookselling culture and consumer behaviour; Diversity, or is it all the same? Book consumption on the Internet in Sweden; New voices in the new millennium; Reviving the oral tradition: the evolution of audiobooks; Are you being served? Librarianship past, present and future; Access, convergence and print on demand: The library dimension; New text technologies, globalization and the future of the book; A whiff of tobacco smoke on the page.