Books Archive

This page displays books that have been featured in the past on the SSP Web site, organized by subject matter.

2006 SSP Annual Meeting Bookstore

Attendees of the 2006 SSP Annual Meeting were able to purchase the following books at the meeting bookstore.

• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century (Updated and Expanded), David Meerman Scott, Thomas Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishers, 2006, 608 pages, hardcover
• Cashing In With Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers, Information Today, Incorporated, 2005, 280 pages, paperback
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005, 242 pages, paperback
• Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig, Penguin Press, 2005, 345 pages, paperback
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005, Little, Brown and Company, 288 pages.
• Eats, Shoots, & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynn Truss, Penguin Press, 2004, The Penguin Group, 209 pages, hardcover
• JSTOR: A History by Roger C. Schonfeld, Princeton University Press, 2003, 440 pages, hardcover
• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin, Portfolio, 2003, 160 pages, hardcover
• Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing by William Kasdsorf, Columbia University Press, 2003, 800 pages, paperback
• The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig. Knopf Publishing Group, 2002, 384 pages, paperback
• XML in Libraries by Roy Tennant, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2002, 213 pages, paperback
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, & Company, 2002, 304 pages, paperback.
• The Copyeditor’s Handbook by Amy Einsohn, University of California Press, 2000, 560 pages, paperback
• Customer Surveying: A Guidebook for Service Managers by Fred Van Benneken, Customer Service Press, 2002, 256 pages, paperback
• How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market, by Gerald Zaltman, Harvard Business School Publishing, 2002, 352 pages, hardcover

Scholarly Publishing

• Scholarly Publishing: Books, Journals, Publishers, and Libraries in the Twentieth Century Richard E. Abel, Lyman W. Newlin, and Katina Strauch, eds. New York : John Wiley, 2002. (336 pages)
• Gatekeepers of Knowledge: Journal Editors in the Sciences and Social Sciences Stephen McGinty. Bergin & Garvey, 1999. (160 pages)
• Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research D. C. Greetham. Modern Language Association of America, 1996. (740 pages)
• Who Owns Academic Work: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property Corynne McSherry. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001. (288 pages)
• Internet Publishing and Beyond Brian Kahin and Hal R. Varian, eds. Boston: MIT Press; 2000. (236 pages)
• Technology and Scholarly Communication Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt, eds. Berkeley: U of California P: 1999. (453 pages)

Information

• Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak. Harvard Business School Press, 1997. (224 pages)
• The Social Life of Information John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. (352 pages)
• Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium Albert Borgmann. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. (274 pages)
• Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace Pierre Levy, Cambridge: Perseus Press, 2000. (312 pages)
• The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business Thomas H. Davenport, John C. Beck. Harvard Business School Press, 2001. (272 pages)

Digital Economy

• Understanding the Digital Economy Erik Brynjolfsson and Brian Kahin, eds. Boston: MIT Press, 2000. (407 pages)
• The Weightless World Diane Coyle, Boston: MIT Press, 1999. (272 pages)
• Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Press, 2001. (368 pages)

Writing

• An Author's Guide to Scholarly Publishing Robin Derricourt, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996. (264 pages)
• Writing and Publishing for Academic Authors edited by Joseph M. Moxley and Todd Taylor, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. (300 pages)
• Writing for Scholarly Publication Anne Sigismund Huff, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999. (185 pages)
• Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences Susan Peck MacDonald, Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. (239 pages)

University Presses and Individuals in Publishing

• A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Fruge on University Publishing August Fruge, U of California P, 1993. (365 pages)
• A Fighting Withdrawal: The Life of Dan Davin Writer, Soldier, Publisher Keith Ovenden, Oxford UP, 1996. (492 pages)
• Harvard University Press: A History Max Hall, Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986 (257 pages)
• From a Single Window: Michigan State University and Its Press 1947-1997 Maurice Hungiville, Michigan State UP, 1998. (220 pages)
• The Oxford University Press: An Informal History Peter H. Sutcliffe, Peter Sutcliff. Oxford UP, 1978 (332 pages)

The SSP Books page mentions and reviews books about information and publishing. Please contact Books Editor Liz Blake to contribute a suggestion or review. All reviews reflect the opinions of the reviewers and not the membership, management, or leadership of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.