Self-Published Books: An Empirical 'Snapshot'

Autor:	Bruce Fulton, Marlene Helm, Jana Bradley
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Empirical research Publishing business.industry Computer science Mainstream Cataloging Snapshot (computer storage) Library science Total population Library and Information Sciences business
Zdroj:	The Library Quarterly. 82:107-140
ISSN:	1549-652X 0024-2519
DOI:	10.1086/664576
Popis:	The number of books published by authors using fee-based publication services, such as Lulu and AuthorHouse, is overtaking the number of books published by mainstream publishers, according to Bowker’s 2009 annual data. Little empirical research exists on self-published books. This article presents the results of an investigation of a random sample of 348 books from a total population of 385,173 titles available from ninety-three fee-based publication services in 2008. Major findings include publication patterns within the nontraditional publishing industry, availability of self-published titles online and in libraries, state of bibliographic and cataloging control, and subject content of self-published books. The findings provide a baseline “snapshot” of books available from publication services in 2008, a time when the self-publishing industry was established but was still small enough to study overall. The article concludes with implications for librarians from this study of self-published books.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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