"The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media seeks to be the definitive publication for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, s ... ets out to contextualize the increasingly convergent areas surrounding social, geosocial, and mobile media discourses. Features include: comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing mobile media; wide-ranging case studies that draw from this truly global field, including China, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, as well as Europe, the UK, and the US; a consideration of mobile media as part of broader media ecologies and histories; chapters setting out the economic and policy underpinnings of mobile media; explorations of the artistic and creative dimensions of mobile media; studies of emerging issues such as ecological sustainability; up-to-date overviews on social and locative media by pioneers in the field." (Back cover) more

"Contending that book publishing, whether viewed as a business or as an art, needs to be examined on a supra-national level, Curwen combines research and insight to construct a clearer picture that shows "how the pieces of the worldwide book indust ... ry fit together." Rather than breaking it down country by country he takes it by its components. Two introductory chapters, "The Structure of the Book Industry," and "International Trade in Books," are followed by "Market Trends," "Book Distribution," "Libraries," "Reading and Owning Books, " "The Price of Books, " "Copyright, " "Book Printing," and "Electronic Publishing."Conclusions are backed by numerous tables and charts, and statistical appendixes give country-by-country figures. Although there is no bibliography, Curwen shows in his tables the sources of his statistics." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1031) more