Stanford Book wins National Jesuit Book Award

The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21^st Century by Albert Greco, Clara Rodriguez, and Robert Wharton has been awarded the 2007 National Jesuit Book Award on the basis of its scholarship, its significance to scholars in multiple disciplines, the authority of its interpretation, and its presentation and style.

This book presents the first objective study since the early 1980s to examine the publishing industry writ large. Greco et al. uncover the ways that publishers have coped, and failed to cope, with a public who reads less each year, a glut of used books on the market, and new technologies that have decreased our dependence on the printed page. With even the New York Times struggling to make money, as seen by its recent decisions to reduce its page size and its work force and to end Times Select, this is an important topic for anyone who reads.

Unlike most books about the world of publishing, The Culture and Commerce of Publishing presents conclusions based on statistical data gathered by the authors, rather than relying on anecdotes and individual experiences. For this reason,  “the book is popular among academics but is also intended for people in the book world or entering the book world who need to ‘make sense of it,’” as discussed in an interview on Shelf Awareness.

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Hallo! I`m not quite undarstand, what do you mean about this book?
Can you explain it more?