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Science 14 April 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5771, pp. 199 - 200
DOI: 10.1126/science.1119715
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Books

SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING:
Who Needs Books?

Sam Elworthy

Books in the Digital Age
The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States
by John B. Thompson
Polity, Cambridge, 2005. 480 pp. $79.95, £65. ISBN 0-7456-3477-X. Paper, $29.95, £19.99. ISBN 0-7456-3478-8.
The author explores the changes that are taking place in academic publishing and the implications these may have for the future of scholarly books.
The reviewer is at Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5237, USA. E-mail: sam_elworthy{at}pupress.princeton.edu

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