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Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States (review)

It is one of the never-ending tasks of a director of a university press to explain to various audiences – most especially the administrator to whom the director reports (whether provost, graduate school dean, vice president for research, head librarian, or other university officer) but also faculty editorial boards, financial oversight committees, boards of trustees, college deans, graduate students, and, not least, the press’s own authors – how this mysterious business of scholarly publishing works. The task has become ever more complex and challenging over the past few decades as technology has brought about a veritable revolution in the way the business is run. As John Thompson himself says on the first page of the introduction of this book, ‘The book publishing industry today is going through a process of change which is probably as profound as anything it has experienced since Johann Gutenberg adapted the traditional screw press for the purposes of manufacturing printed texts’ (1). Hitherto we directors have had to patch together an explanatory account from a variety of different sources. Thompson notes a few of these in his introduction, including the pioneering Books: The