The Rights and Wrongs of Operational Practices in the Scottish Publishing Industry

• Published in: Publishing research quarterly Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 345 - 358
• Main Author: Ramdarshan Bold, Melanie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.12.2012; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Academic libraries; Business; Colleges & universities; Conglomerates; Domestic markets; English language; Exact sciences and technology; Information and communication sciences; Information publishing, dissemination and reproduction; Information science. Documentation; Library Science; Logos; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Polls & surveys; Printing and Publishing; Property rights; Publishing industry; Publishing. Electronic publishing. Bibliological aspects; Sciences and techniques of general use; Small & medium sized enterprises-SME; Social Sciences; New York; Scotland; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Copyright; Scotland; IPR; Digital publishing; Small nation publishing; Right; Information industry; Publishing

Digital publishing has been considered as a panacea to bridge the gaps between different sized publishing companies: allowing small, independent companies to compete on an equal footing with cross-media conglomerates. However, this research discovered that Scottish publishers are not capitalising on...