The economics of the publishing and information industries: the search for yield in a disintermediated world

Introduction -- The legal and economic foundation of intellectual property and copyrights -- Money never sleeps: the search for yield in a disintermediated world -- Major marketing and economic theories and issues impacting the newspaper, magazine, and book publishing industries -- The economics of the newspaper industry -- The economics of the magazine industry -- The economics of the book publishing industry -- The information industries -- Disruption in the book and information industries: the impact of the Kirtsaeng decision on trade, educational, scholarly, and information industry publishers

Books, scholarly journals, business information, and professional information play a pivotal role in the political, social, economic, scientific, and intellectual life of nations. While publications abound on Wall Street and financial service companies, the relationship between Wall Street's financial service companies and the publishing and information industries has not been explored until now. The Economics of the Publishing and Information Industries utilizes substantive historical, business, consumer, economic, sociological, technological, and quantitative and qualitative methodologies to