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| BIBLIO DETAILS | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | Marilyn Gardner. "Sad Chapter for University Presses," Christian Sience Monitor (Apri 1, 2004), Page 11. Garner sums up in journalistic style the travails at university presses, with a focus on recent developments at Northeastern, Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan and Chicago. Lynn Garrett. "The Evolution of Scholarly Publishing," Publishers Weekly (November 11, 2002), Pages SC2-SC13. Garrett, PW'sreligion editor, has edited a series of items and interviews on how economics are driving religious and schoalrly publishers and universities press toward mass market angles for their products. The upshot: What's happening is not altogether bad. William Germano. "If Dissertations Could Talk, What Would They Say?" Chronicle of Higher Education (June 13, 2003). Pages B9-B10. Germano, of Routledge Press, bemoans the quality of dissertations that young scholars turn into their first book. Says Germano: They're so dull. William Germano, "In Writing and Publishing, Think Inside the Box," Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume 48 (July 5, 2002): Number 43, Pages B12-B13. Germano, publishing director at Routledge, acknowledges that interdisciplinary scholarship is important but argues that books must fall into recognized categories if they're going to find readers. Books without a category don't get slotted by mailing-list companies and shelved by bookstores in ways that get them noticed. Germano offers lots of insights into academic book marketing. (jv) Daniel Golden. "Rewriting History: Attack Causes Panic for Textbook Authors." Wall Street Journal Volume 138 (October 9, 2001): Number 7, Pages A1, A15. Golden, a news reporter, focuses on American Nation, a Prentiss Hall middle-school textbook, to illustrate how authors and publishers scrambled to include the September 11 terrorism attacks in the United States in new editions. (jv) Andrew Goldstein with Debrah Fowler. "Amending the Texts,"Time (February 12, 2001), Page 77. Goldstein that reports publishers have hired more fact-checkers to catch school-book errors and that technology soon will speed corrected versions to students. (jv) Paul Goldstein. Changing the American Schoolbook. Lexington, 1978. A valuable discussion of the disincentives provided by copyright and patent laws for innovation in textbooks. Includes an extensive description and analysis of attempted textbook innovation and reform in the 1970s. (lkh) William A. Gordon. The Quotable Writer McGraw-Hill, 2000. Tara Gray and Jane Birch. "Publish, Don't Perish: A Program to Help Scholars Flourish," in To Improve the Academy (2000), Pages 268-284. Tara Gray. "Publish, Don't Perish: Twelve Steps to Help Scholars Flourish," Journal of Staff, Program and Organization Development (1999), Pages 135-142. Albert N. Greco. The Price of University Press Books, 1989-2000. American Association of University Presses, 2003. Greco, a book industry analyst, reports on his data on university press book pricing, which lagged both inflation and the prices of comparable trade titles. The report was the first in a series on the accessibility of academic information. Albert N. Greco. "The Market for University Press Books in the United States: 1985-1999," Learned Publishing Volume 14 (April 2001): Number 2. Pages 97 to 105. Albert N. Greco, Jaak Jurison, Cornelia H. McCarthy and Robert M. Wharton. "Professional, Religious, and University Presses," in Book Industry Trends 2001. Book Industry Study Group, 2001. Pages 91-92. Albert N. Greco, Robert M. Wharton, Jaak Jurison and Cornelia H. McCarthy. "Educational Publishing: Elhi and College Textbooks," in Book Industry Trends 2001. New York: Book Industry Study Group, Inc., 2001. Pages 153-154. Albert N. Greco. The Book Publishing Industry. Allyn & Bacon, 1997. Greco bases this thorough examination of the book business, including publishing and retailing, on data that he shares in numerous tables. The focus is on the 1980s and 1990s, with a good examination of major issues. (jv) Albert N. Greco. "Mergers and Acquisitions in Publishing, 1984-1988: Some Public Policy Issues," Chapter 5 (Pages 121-140) in The Structure of International Publishing in the 1990s, Fred Kobrak and Beth Luey, editors. Transaction Publishers, 1992 (reprinted from Book Research Quarterly). Albert N. Greco. "Teaching Publishing in the United States," Book Research Quarterly, Volume 6 (Spring 1990): Pages 12-19. Albert N. Greco. "The Business Publishing Industry in the United States," Chapter 4 (Pages 194-225) in The Handbook of Business Publications, edited by Iwao Obe (Tokyo, Japan: Nikkei Business Publications and Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., 1989; in Japanese). A portion of this material was updated and used inBusiness Journalism. Research Accepted for Publication Pending Revisions (Cambridge University Press). Ted Gup. "The Only Thing More Humbling Than Writing,"Chronicle of Higher Education (February 22, 2001), Page B10. Gup, a journalism professor at Case Western Reserve University, talks of his love for writing, but concludes pessimistically that the job is in the anticipation and that the end result never lives up to a writer's hopes. (jv) Lila Guterman. "The Promise and Peril of 'Open Access,'" Chronicle of Higher Education (January 30, 2004), Pages A10-A14. Guterman, a news reporter, offers an extensive assessment of the movement to create subscription-free academic journals. Downsides include the financial structure not only of journal publishing companies but also the academic societies that rely on the revenue. Lila Guterman. "Conflicts of Interest Between the Lines," Chronicle of Higher Education (February 8, 2002), Pages A14-A16. G uterman, a news reporter, draws on a wide range of interviews regarding books that don't acknowledge that the research on which they are based came from corporate-sponsored projects. Guterman notes that a few academic journals, which require such disclosure for the articles they run, have begun to decline to review books that don't carry disclosure statements. (jv)
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