The Book Publishing Industry

Greco, Albert N.

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“…And Malaysia, with its population of 80 million, manages to publish 15,000 titles a year. Of the 10,000 titles ISLLE 2017 only 8% are college textbooks and these are mostly reprints and translations of foreign textbooks [12].…”

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The Role of Language Editors in Improving the Quality of Academic Books Published By University Presses

Setiawan¹,

Saddhono²,

Purwadi³

2018

KSS

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The purpose of this research is to improve the role of language editors in university press management, particularly in Indonesia, in publishing universities' intellectual assets. The method used was a descriptive qualitative design by focusing on group discussions, seminars, workshops, and training. The results showed that the university press was the most important pillar in the implementation of Tri Dharma University and had a vital role in publishing and distributing the intellectual assets of higher education to the public. Good management will ultimately create a professional university press. Aspects such as editorial management were considered, particularly in language editing, because of the essential role of connecting writers' ideas to the readers. There have been some experiences in Indonesia where the University Press proved that a well-managed publishing will produce a positive impact to the university. The academic sphere will apparently appear in every activity related to publication and will present a positive image toward universities.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Language Editors in Improving the Quality of Academic Books Published By University Presses

Setiawan¹,

Saddhono²,

Purwadi³

2018

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“…9 The new paperback books often featured the same authors that fiction magazines had featured previously and were sold in the same retail outlets. 10 As a result, the switch from magazine licensing to paperback printing had little impact on the creation of book manuscripts. I would significantly overestimate real growth of book writing 1940 to 1950 if I excluded magazine licensing revenue from the industry definition.…”

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Books as Capital Assets

Soloveichik¹

2014

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

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In 2007, authors and publishers released book manuscripts with a value of $9.1 billion. These books will continue to be sold for decades. Because of this long working life, the international guidelines for national accounts recommend that countries classify production of books and other entertainment, literary, and artistic originals as an investment activity and then depreciate those books over time. However, the Bureau of Economic Analysis did not capitalize this category of intangible assets until the July 2013 benchmark revision. In order to change the national accounts, this paper collects data on production of book manuscripts from 1900 to 2010. The paper then calculates how GDP statistics change when book manuscripts are classified as capital assets.The main empirical results are as follows: 1) Book manuscripts have a useful lifespan of at least fifty years with an annual depreciation rate of 12 per cent per year; 2) Nominal book investment has hovered around 0.06 per cent of nominal GDP from the 1930s until 2010. Therefore, nominal GDP growth does not change much when book production is classified as an investment activity; 3) After 1970, book investment prices rose faster than overall GDP prices. Accordingly, average inflation rises slightly when book production is classified as investment. Before 1970, book investment prices roughly track overall GDP prices.

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“…In the book publishing industry, the major book categories are: textbooks, adult trade books, children's books, technical, scientific and professional books and general reference books (Greco, Milliot, & Wharton, 2014). Trade books are published for the general public and 'used primarily for entertainment and information' (Rath, 1995, p. 16).…”

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Bibliography-based quantitative translation history

Zhou

Sun

2016

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Compared with qualitative methods, quantitative methods can help detect and interpret patterns and regularities in translation history. However, quantitative methods rarely have been used in translation history research, mostly for lack of statistical data. The highly structured nature of bibliographical data and their availability make them an ideal data source for quantitative history. Drawing on the discipline of book history, this paper introduces bibliographical sources for quantitative translation history, presents techniques for retrieving, analyzing and presenting bibliographic data, reviews some existing quantitative studies related to translation history, and describes some of our own preliminary findings. Despite issues in data quality, the bibliography-based quantitative approach opens an avenue for investigating systematically how books were produced, translated and published, where they were distributed, and who was reading them. ARTICLE HISTORY

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The Book Publishing Industry

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The Role of Language Editors in Improving the Quality of Academic Books Published By University Presses

The Role of Language Editors in Improving the Quality of Academic Books Published By University Presses

Books as Capital Assets

Bibliography-based quantitative translation history

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