The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing

A truly interactive resource... The guide targets professionals and nonprofessionals, and the result is both thorough and readable... Recommended especially for public and academic libraries. Library Journal The editor and contributors, who have distinguished careers in digital publishing, have exerted great effort to include all relevant information for beginners, yet they offer enough detail to capture the attention advanced users without expanding to a multivolume work or becoming too long... A superb opening gesture for creating a dialog on the scholarly communication process. Choice In a world where all things electronic have become dominant, this remarkable volume serves as a comprehensive handbook to every conceivable aspect of digital publishing... This valuable compendium is most highly recommended for all collections. -- John Maxymuk American Reference Books Annual Columbia's guide was created and edited in a text-encoded electronic format that has been used to derive both the print and Web versions... A solid electronic resource with good content... Recommended. Choice An excellent technical overview of the constantly evolving world of electronic publishing. Updates and hyperlinks add value to the online version, which is well organized and easy-to-use. Booklist Much is neatly packed into this encyclopedia of information on everything ranging from digital-rights management to digital legal issues. Columbus Dispatch This book will be a very welcome addition to the bookshelf of anyone working with any form of digital publishing. It is by far the most thorough, authoritative digital publishing reference source available. Editor William Kasdorf, Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, has pulled together an impressive array of experts to produce this definitive guide. The Indexer The Guide is remarkably successful in fulfilling its intentions... It was a pleasant surprise to discover that although the book does contain many references to specific hardware devices and software programs, it contextualizes these references in discussions that will remain relevant for years to come. -- Maria S. Bonn Portal: Reviews [C]lear out a prominent space on your bookshelf forThe Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing... [T]his guide is a compendium of in-depth articles on all these aspects of digital publishing and more, each written by an expert in the field... Destined to become a classic,The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing will be the Bible you turn to again and again, whether you need to make publishing decisions large and small, or share a teaching resource with a manager or staff member. -- Darrill Anderson Technical Communication The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing is the War and Peace of digital communication resources. It is epic in scope and exhaustive in detail, historic, and prophetic. An original. A universe. It's long but it's all substance...The Columbia Guide may be new and it may be the first of its kind, but it has the makings of a classic. -- Linda Hengstler Science Editor